Pakistan Y2K chaos looms

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ISLAMABAD -- In Pakistan, it is not so much a question of
whether anything will go wrong at the stroke of midnight on
Dec. 31. It's how much will go wrong.

Canoe

Earlier thread

Karachi Electric Company, which powers the
country's most populated city, is still trying
to prepare one of its main generators.

. . .

In Pakistan the risks are all the greater because
the country last year became the world's newest
nuclear power and still has a troubled relationship
with its larger, and also nuclear-armed neighbour
India. "The military are always secret."

Pakistan struggling to handle Y2K threat

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 10, 1999


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