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Musharraf's 'Silent Revolution'

Vol. 38, Issue No. 29, 19 Jul, 2003
S Akbar Zaidi

Pakistan's local/district government system is being seriously undermined by the provincial governments, casting doubts on the prospects of success for Musharraf's devolution plan. The tussle indicates a systematic problem preventing the coexistence of these systems of government, and also shows that the survival of the devolution plan is in peril unless it is brought into the mainstream of democratic politics.

Musharraf's Quest for a 'Progressive and Dynamic' Pakistan

Vol. 37, Issue No. 18, 04 May, 2002
Ranjit Sau

Pakistan has three clear models of modernisation it could emulate - China, India and Saudi Arabia. But while, Saudi Arabia has oil reserves in plenty and China, its diaspora's dollars, Pakistan remains poorly blessed with resources. It has only India to look to for emulation. India, in turn, requires Pakistan's hand of friendship for maintaining communal harmony and vice versa. More than ever before, India and Pakistan need each other.

From Ideology-to-Territory-Based Nation

Vol. 37, Issue No. 09, 02 Mar, 2002
Balraj Puri

General Musharraf's declared resolve to make Pakistan a nontheocratic state is a step towards Pakistan's transformation from an ideology-based to a territory-based nation. Unfortunately there is a growing trend among some sections in India to give a Pakistan-type ideological orientation to India's nationhood. But the tendency to purify Indian culture from 'alien' accretions poses a threat to the security of the country by weakening national unity and the unique civilisational experiment that is India.

Pervez Musharraf at Gates of 'Ijtihad'

Vol. 37, Issue No. 09, 02 Mar, 2002
Ranjit Sau

The state of Pakistan cherished as a pioneer of Islamic revival, today faces a palpable dilemma. With terrorism vitiating the civil order and crippling the economy, the state would be reckoned to have failed. Musharraf's recent speech proposing a middle course between westernisation and Islam brings Pakistan face to face with a historic moment that should be seized.

Pakistan: Legitimising Military Rule

Vol. 36, Issue No. 40, 06 Oct, 2001
S Akbar Zaidi

Return to democracy, of any kind, in Pakistan is now a thing of the past. The only road-map which now exists is the one leading to Afghanistan. The parallels between 1979 and 2001 are so striking that one is left wondering whether Pakistan has at all moved forward in these two decades.

Agra vs Kashmir

Vol. 36, Issue No. 32, 11 Aug, 2001
Sumanta Banerjee

Questions like the free movement of people in the two Kashmirs, disengagement of armed forces along the LoC, withdrawal of security forces in the Valley, termination of Pakistani support to armed groups, found no place in the agenda of the Agra summit. How, without addressing the real problems of the people in the region, can the two governments ever hope to move towards a resolution of tensions?

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