Pakistan: Four Scenarios

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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 people to decide who will rule them. The problem is they hardly have a choice. The political parties countering the military rule are partisan, parochail and have a history of belying the promises of progress made at frequent intervals in the troubles six decades of Pakistan’s existence. democracy seems a distant dream. This work is an attempt to work around these, and other, question facing Pakistan with the help of scenarios. These scenarios are not predictions but are, nevertheless, based on critical assessments of the changing situation in Pakistan. They provide an insight into the underlying forces impelling changes which will have a telling impact on the future of Pakistan. In a way, these scenarios are a bold attempt to look beyond, and between, events to study the changing matrix in a troubled region.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wilson John

Wilson John is a Senior Fellow with Observer research Foundation, New Delhi. His areas of research include India's neighbourhood policy, Pakistan and terrorism. He has four books to his credit -An Admiral's Fall (1999), Karachi: An International Terrorist capital in the making (2004), Pakistan's Nuclear Underworld (2005), and Terrorism in South Asia-edited with Swati Parashar (2005). His articles are regularly published both in India and abroad. He has contributed a chapter, Pakistani Under Islamist Siege, in India's National Security: Annual Review 2004 -edited by Professor Satish Kumar, India research Press, 2005. His chapters on Pakistan have been published in Unmasking Terror: A global review of terrorist activities published by The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, 2005. His recent article in The Washington Times was on Inside Political (March 22, 2007). Recently, a chapter on Islamic terrorism in South Asia: Trends and Challenges is included in South Asia Defence & Strategic Year Book 2007 published by Pentagon Press, new Delhi. An edited volume on Pakistan: Future tense is under publication. His latest publication is a Brief on lashkar-e-Tayyeba published by University of Bradford in may 2007.  

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Title
Pakistan: Four Scenarios
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788182743236
Length
vi+90p., Tables; Annexures; Index; 23cm.
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