Wilson John
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This volume seeks to explore Pakistan's policy towards Afghanistan, especially post the US intervention of 2001. It will examine the internal and external compulsions that have shaped Pakistan's goals and strategies vis-a-vis Afghanistan; the landscape of terror Pakistan's has spawaned for over three decades; and the possible fallout of the US troops withdrawal on Pakistan and its sponsored proxies.
The volume, in conclusion, examines the impact of the changing ...
In its entire history, Pakistan founding father Jinnah’s vision of a modern, democratic state has never had a chance before the onrush of this hydra-headed juggernaut, the army–ISI combine, fuelled as it is by fanaticism, corporate greed, and lust for power. The single most important task before Pakistan’s citizen’s and its civilian leaders is to break up this cabal.
Does democracy have a chance in Pakistan? In the sixty years of its existence, Pakistan has experienced four military coups and has been ruled by the military for more than half the period. Even during the interludes of democracy, Pakistan's military exercised considerable power and influence. It also supported various militant groups in their causes, thus abetting terrorism. III-conceived policies of the military dictatorship in the country and failed ...
Terrorism came to Karachi long before September 11, 2001, much before Maulana Masood Azhar stood in the courtyard of Binori Mosque complex and announced jihad against India in January 2000. The year was 1986. Azhar was around eighteen and a student of the Jamia Islamia madrasa at the mosque (where one of his friends was Mohammad Omar who later went on to become the Taliban chief) when a group of Palestinians hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 with 379 passengers and crew ...
No other country in the world has spawned and supported as many extremist and terrorist groups as Pakistan. The size of the Jihadi population could be gauged from one simple fact that Karachi alone has as many as 30 terrorist groups. Many of these groups are sectarian in nature; some purely criminal; others are aligned with Al-Qaida and the Taliban; all of them, however, boast of links with ISI. President Pervez Musharraf has claimed time and again that he has ...
In Pakistan today, there are more questions than answers. One of the questions increasingly being asked within, and outside, is who will rule Pakistan. It is certainly not an easy question to answer. General Pervez Musharraf, in power for about eight years, has come to believe that he alone is the best hope for Pakistan. People outside the cantonments seem to have a different view. They believe that the general has over-stayed in Islamanad -and it's time for ...