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...role of the army is one of the most important factors in the crisis now facing Pakistan. The first coup under General Ayub Khan might have been justified under the circumstances, but having tasted power, the army went on to undermine the authority of elected governments and attain a privileged position in the country. Portraying India as the permanent enemy justified the allocation of a huge percentage of national GDP for defence. The army, particularly during the period of General Zia ul-Haq, also engaged in systematic Islamization of the state by bringing in the Wahabi concept of Islam from...
...death has renewed calls to stop corporal punishment in schools; the issue is explosive because in India physical abuse in schools is widespread. According to a 2007 joint study by UNICEF, Save the Children and the Indian government, 65% of school-going children have faced corporal punishment. Ayub Khan, Shanno's father, a waiter without a regular job, says in an interview with TIME that he is determined "to get justice for his daughter." (See pictures of India's tempestuous Nehru dynasty...
Khan gets emotional as he describes Shanno's last hours. "She kept on asking for water but the teacher ignored her," Ayub describes what he says as his daughter's suffering. Her two sisters, Saima and Sehnaz, say that Shanno pleaded with the teacher that she would learn her alphabet properly after lunch, but was ignored. (The parents of several other children at the same school say their children describe the incident in similar terms.) Shanno's sisters Saima and Sehnaz then ran to get their mother. "We thought our sister was dead," Saima said. When their mother arrived...
...Pakistanis could envision a PPP without a Bhutto at its helm. She inherited leadership of the party not long after her father's execution at the hands of military dictator Ayub Khan in 1979, and refused to relinquish power even when in exile. Since becoming Prime Minister in 1988, she has hopscotched into and out of power with archrivals Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was ousted by military coup in 1999, and Musharraf. For the past 20 years those names have dominated the Pakistani political scene. "It really is like a soap opera," says Haq. "Year after year...
...second time this week, the Iraqi government has announced the death of a top terrorist - only to be greeted with skepticism. The earlier claim that tribal fighters had killed al-Qaeda's Iraq military leader, Abu Ayub al-Masri, has yet to be verified. But Thursday's announcement by Iraq's Interior Ministry of the killing of al-Qaeda's political/spiritual leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was accompanied by claims that the terrorist's body was in the government's possession. But U.S. military spokesman Maj.-Gen. William Caldwell has brushed off the claim that al-Baghdadi had been killed...