We’ve been worried about Iran getting nuclear weapons. We know Pakistan already has nukes. We know that al Qaeda and Taliban fighters found refuge in remote areas of Pakistan after the U.S. attacked Afghanistan. So this is pretty scary:
Panicky rumors of a coup swept through Pakistan on Sunday after a power outage interrupted national television broadcasts and later plunged much of the country into darkness.
With the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, away on an extended trip to the United States and Canada at a time of regional tensions and growing insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan, many Pakistanis speculated that he had been overthrown in absentia.
The chairman of the national power administration, Tariq Hamid, said at a 10 p.m. news conference in Lahore that the outage was caused by technical problems and that no sabotage had been involved.
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