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Muslim and Hindu: The Sensitive Areas (February 1958) – Atlantic Monthly
Part 3 in our series of articles about Pakistan and India. Investigating the deeply rooted antagonism between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, the author focused on the conflict over Kashmir and blamed India for delaying a solution. Continue reading
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Bhutto’s party seeks coalition – Al Jazeera – 20 Feb.08
The Pakistan People’s party (PPP) has said it will try to form a coalition goverment without the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
“We will form a government of national consensus which will take along every democratic force,” Asif Ali Zardari, the party’s co-chairman told a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The PPP won the most seats in the national assembly in Monday’s elections, while the PML-Q, which supports Pervez Musharraf, the president, trailed a distant third.
“For now, the decision of the party is that we are not interested in any of those people who are part and parcel of the last government,” Zardari, the widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said. Continue reading
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Pakistan – May 1953 – Atlantic Monthly
The least understood great power of Asia today is probably Pakistan. To Western eyes, Pakistan is that “other India,” the vestige that was left over when India achieved her independence. A Pakistani is always being taken for an Indian, simply because he is a citizen of the same subcontinent. He feels something like an Israeli being taken for an Arab because both are Semites.
Pakistan would be easier to understand at a distance if it were one remnant. But it is made up of two unequal lobes separated by the vast territory of India – hung like two great ears of an elephant, two Muslim ears on an Indian skull.
Another insightful article, this time from 1953. Continue reading
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The Shah of Pakistan?- Musharraf’s Post-Electoral Prospect By AHMAD FARUQUI
Having orchestrated many an electoral charade during the past eight years to keep himself in power, Musharraf now faces what may be the final test of his political career. The general-turned politician is probably the only man in Pakistani history (and maybe world history) who had himself “re-elected” president by a parliament whose term was expiring and that had elected him once before. He may be similarly unique in having been allowed to hold the dual offices of army chief and president by a special act of parliament. Continue reading
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India – April 1946 – Atlantic Monthly
This article was written in 1946 just before the British “Quit India” and the creation of Pakistan. Very insightful. Continue reading
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Musharraf losing military backing – SMH – 25 Jan.08
THERE are definite signs that the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, is losing the important backing of the military after an influential group of retired officers called on him to step down.
With crucial national elections just weeks away, the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen’s Society, which includes former air marshals, admirals, generals and security agency chiefs, issued a statement demanding that Mr Musharraf step aside to pave the way for the restoration of democracy.
“General Pervez Musharraf … does not represent the unity and the symbol of the federation as president,” a statement issued by the society on Wednesday said. Continue reading
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Brotherly, Friendly Countries? – Saudi Arabia and Pakistan By AYESHA IJAZ KHAN
Public opinion of Saudi Arabia plummeted to the lowest it has ever been on the streets of Pakistan when the Saudi government agreed to Nawaz Sharif’s deportation from Pakistan in the summer of 2007, contravening directly the Supreme Court verdict that had plainly said that Mr. Sharif, a Pakistani citizen, had the inalienable right to live in his country and that any deal he may have entered into with the government of Mr. Musharraf in 1999to live in exile, most likely under duress, would not hold up in a court of law.
Saudi Arabia had in the past enjoyed respect, almost veneration, in the eyes of many Pakistanis, primarily because the holy sites of Mecca and Medina are located there, but also because several Pakistanis had earned a living in Saudi Arabia and repatriated funds consistently, often feeding an entire family on the remittances of a single Pakistani worker sweating it out in the desert sun. In spite of the fact that treatment of guest workers in Saudi Arabia, especially those at the lower end of the economic spectrum, leaves a lot to be desired, average Pakistanis nevertheless looked upon the Kingdom with a sense of admiration.
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Dumbageddon – Bush’s Delusional Policy Pushes Pakistan to Brink of Catastrophe By CHINA HAND
It’s not just Islamist extremists who see U.S. meddling as the source of Pakistan’s problems.
Liberal, secular opinion inside Pakistan increasingly sees U.S. interference in Pakistan’s politics on behalf of military rule and in pursuit of its own misguided and dangerous security priorities as the root cause of that country’s miserable political instability.
Recent events make it easy to see why.
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Who Killed Bhutto? – ROBERT FISK
Question: Who forced Benazir Bhutto to stay in London and tried to prevent her return to Pakistan? Answer: General Musharraf.
Question: Who ordered the arrest of thousands of Benazir’s supporters this month? Answer: General Musharraf.
Question: Who placed Benazir under temporary house arrest this month? Answer: General Musharraf.
Question: Who declared martial law this month? Answer General Musharraf.
Question: who killed Benazir Bhutto?
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Bhutto killed in suicide attack
Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, has been killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi. Continue reading
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