Pakistan has always been a player at the global stage since its emergence as an independent country in 1947. Unfortunately after the demise of founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, his colleagues quickly tried to grab their booty considering this country as a reward for the combined struggle of residents and migrants. Muslim League wanted the [...]
So at last the sneering former dictator Musharraf has announced that he wants to play his role with the help of people’s power and yes through democratic way. Who knows democracy and its ways better than the dictators?
Just after two years of his departure, Musharraf is once again ready to jump into the practical politics, [...]
The common experience of British dependencies in Asia was direct, custodial rule over a prolonged period. I believe that this is the principal reason why constitutional democracy has fared better there than in the Arab Middle East.
That experience was shared by the two largely Islamic states that had formed part of colonial India: Pakistan [...]
August 14, 1947 is important because an independent and sovereign country called Pakistan was added to world atlas on that day. The creation of Pakistan was one of the best things that could have happened for a majority of the people living in this part of the sub-continent. One can weigh the pros and cons [...]
Washington, DC. In last May, an Asia Program event at the Woodrow Wilson Center cosponsored and featured Khaled Ahmed, a Pakistani scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Yitzhak Nakash, a Jew and an Islamic history expert of the Middle East and former fellow at Wilson Center.
Ahmed said that, fortunately or unfortunately, most Pakistani Shias [...]
