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WHEN the PPP boycotted the 1985 election held by Gen Ziaul Haq who had deposed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, it helped the general bring in a government, even a parliament, sanitised of the PPP and Bhutto’s followers. By the next election in 1988, the PPP had learnt the error of its ways and also gained from the fact that Zia was no longer holding sway over Pakistani national space. Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Aslam Beg whose appointment as vice chief of army staff was not one Ziaul Haq was said to have been too happy with took the quick decision to hold elections as scheduled, paving the way for the PPP to win. And the Supreme Court allowed the parties to contest.
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Examining the legacy of one of the biggest social and political movements ever experienced in the Middle East.
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The Arab Spring brought about lasting transformations across the Middle East, radically altering the political and socio-economic fabric of the region.
Sparking into life in Tunisia with the ‘Jasmine Revolution’, a series of protests calling for greater social freedoms quickly spread across the rest of the region in 2011, to Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Libya, and Bahrain among others.
While some grassroots campaigns, such as in Tunisia and Egypt, forced significant changes domestically, other descended into chaos and civil war, like those in Libya, Syria and Yemen.
The Kashmir dispute
February 9, 2021
Many well-meaning British citizens accept the fact that it was Britain in the first place that made decisions which led to the dispute over the state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of the partition of India.
Partition resulted in the independence of India and Pakistan, which was a new state carved out of the Indian subcontinent with an overwhelming majority of Muslims. But the two newly independent nations became embroiled in a dispute that remains unresolved even 72 years after independence. The trigger for the dispute, which has led to wars and taken a heavy human and material toll, was provided by the British Raj and its last viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten.
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In his ‘History of England’, famed economist and philosopher David Hume encapsulates the British Empire’s mindset. It reads: “The British conquerors in India directed their pursuits to one object exclusively, the acquisition of money. They considered in every transaction of war, peace or alliance what money could be drawn from the inhabitants. They pillaged not with the ferocity of soldiers but with the cool exactness of debtor and creditor”.
The British Empire exists no more. What is sermonized to us, the lesser mortals of this world, are the virtues of law and justice in an exemplary democracy. A stark contradiction has Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) reporting that “90 billion pounds is being laundered in the UK each year”. The amount is twice Britain’s total defense budget. NCA identified Pakistan as one of the top three countries who’s politically exposed persons (PEPs) invest siphoned pu
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