Further Articles
An American journal has compiled a list of 177 states with a descending order of viability in the modern world; and Pakistan is in the top ten “failed states”. There is only a marginal improvement in status as the last time the list appeared Pakistan was 9th on it. By Daily Times
Pakistan in a Permanent Crisis: Is There a Way Forward?
Conference Paper of an International Expert Conference, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, October 22/23, 2007. Major concern was to elaborate perspectives from within Pakistan upon what the main sources of growing instability and of lacking reform processes are. By Christian Fröhlich for Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Conference Paper of an International Expert Conference, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, October 22/23, 2007. Major concern was to elaborate perspectives from within Pakistan upon what the main sources of growing instability and of lacking reform processes are. By Christian Fröhlich for Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Recovering the progressive legacy
Pakistan’s progressive decade from the anti-Ayub movement to Bhutto’s overthrow was the best example of ideological pluralism, openness and frank debate. Bhutto’s populist rule, however, was a mix at best. By Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Pakistan’s progressive decade from the anti-Ayub movement to Bhutto’s overthrow was the best example of ideological pluralism, openness and frank debate. Bhutto’s populist rule, however, was a mix at best. By Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Pakistan on the Brink
Pakistan is close to the brink, perhaps not to a meltdown of the government, but to a permanent state of anarchy.There will be no mass revolutionary uprising rather we can expect a slow, long-burning fuse of terror, and paralysis that the state is unable, and partly unwilling, to douse. By Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan is close to the brink, perhaps not to a meltdown of the government, but to a permanent state of anarchy.There will be no mass revolutionary uprising rather we can expect a slow, long-burning fuse of terror, and paralysis that the state is unable, and partly unwilling, to douse. By Ahmed Rashid
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