Poynty, if you had actually read the article you would have seen that all religious parties have LOST! No, I fear for all countries run by religious extremists: puppets of the Pope, the Ayatollah or even the Dalai Llama frighten me; so do the puppets of the Pentagon and, I daresay, Musharaf was one of those puppets of the Pentagon. Every country is part of the same planet and the politics of one country -particularly one that has a finger on a nuclear weapons facility- should be of great concern to Oz and the rest of the world. And, ponty, we can and should do both, simultaneously.
