1115.org

In Pakistan, as in some other countries you may be familiar with, the government routinely lies to the people.

The refreshing thing about Pakistan is that:
a) The press — which is not even a free press but semi-muzzled, and they were slapped down even more during Pervez’s Musharraf’s recent declaration of emergency — actually goes out and proves the lie!
b) When the press proves the lie, the government actually admits to lying and apologizes for it!

In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has “apologised” for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.

Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan has asked the media and people to “forgive and ignore” comments made by his ministry’s spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema which were slammed by her Pakistan People’s Party as “lies” and led to an uproar at home and abroad.

The Interior Minister made the apology during a briefing for Pakistani newspaper editors on Monday.
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The government’s apparent damage control exercise on Cheema’s comments made at a news conference a day after Bhutto was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, came after TV channels aired privately shot photos and video footage which showed a gunman shooting at Bhutto.

The Pakistan People’s Party leader is seen in the footage falling through the sun-roof before the suicide bomber detonated his explosives.

George Bush, presumably, is not paying any attention to this wonderful example that the Pakistan government is setting. That is to say, his bubble-keepers will conspire to keep this from him somehow.

But maybe La Bimberino can pay attention?

(Link was added very late in the day; sorry!)