Word: farooq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious than a state of emergency or a state of siege, and more comprehensive than a suspension of habeas corpus or an imposition of preventive detention. It is both a political and a psychological device, which implies that authority begins at the trigger of a gun. In effect, says Farooq Hassan, a Pakistani legal scholar now teaching at American University in Washington, B.C., "martial law is a political weapon to show the public that, no matter how unpopular the regime in power, it still has the support of the army...