Khan’s Victory Set to Revive ‘Bullishness’ in Pakistan Markets Bloomberg 3/7/2021 Faseeh Mangi and Ismail Dilawar
(Bloomberg) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s victory in a confidence vote in Parliament, gave a boost to his fragile government and may help lure investors to its equity markets.
Khan got 178 votes from members of his Tehreek-e-Insaf party and allies in the 342-seat lower house National Assembly, proving majority, Speaker Asad Qaiser said in televised meeting in Islamabad on Saturday.
His win may temporarily bring stability to the South Asian nation as its economy recovers from the pandemic-induced contraction with the help of the International Monetary Fund’s $6 billion loan program. With U.S. President Joe Biden urging allies to uphold democracy, stability in Pakistan is an advantage in the region, which is already reeling from a coup in Myanmar.
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The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
Some other books that have discussed One Unit include ‘Pakistan of Jinnah’ by Ahmed Salim, ‘Pakistan in the 20th Century’ by Lawrence Ziring and ‘Federalism in Pakistan’ by Muntzra Nazir. Interested readers may also find details of the One Unit scheme in some biographies and memoirs such as ‘Mera Siyasi Safar’ by Hasan Mahmood, and ‘Daultana Dastaan’ by Wakeel Anjum – both published by Jang Publishers.
Dr Tanweer Ahmad Tahir’s doctoral thesis ‘Political dynamics of Sindh’ completed at the Pakistan Study Centre of the University of Karachi in 2010 is also a marvelous source of information on this topic. Dr Tahir has himself condensed and translated his thesis into Urdu and published it as ‘Sindh ki siyasat nasliyati tanazur mei’n (The politics of Sindh with the perspective of ethnicity). It has two chapters exclusively dealing with the making and unravelling of One Un
Opinion
December 27, 2020
There are mainly two reasons for discussing the One Unit episode in our history in this column. First is that in 2020, it was the 50th anniversary of the dissolution of One Unit, which after 15 years of experimentation was abolished in 1970. The second is the present drive of the government to roll back the 18th Amendment, which will essentially bring back memories of One Unit.
For the uninitiated, just a quick recap. When Pakistan came into being in 1947 it comprised two wings: East Bengal and West Pakistan which had multiple provinces and administrative units. East Bengal had around 55 percent of Pakistan’s population which mostly spoke one language – Bengali or Bangla – whereas the remaining 45 percent population spread over several provinces and states in the western wing spoke Balochi, Punjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, Sindhi, and many other languages. The capital was in Karachi in the western wing, a city which had been severed from Sindh to be made