Word: pakistanã
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...little publicized fact that when Pakistan was carved out from India, its creation was opposed not just by Nehru and Gandhi, but also by the Islamic leaders of the time. Jinnah—Pakistan??s founder—envisioned the new country as a progressive Muslim, not Islamic, state. Indeed, his independence address declared to his people, “You are free to go to your temples, [to your] places of worship...that has nothing to do with the business of the State...You will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus...
...Among Pakistan??s urban majority, headscarves—let alone the suffocating burqas—remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that...
...Though Pakistan??s assistance has been vital to the current U.S. campaign, Pakistan has yet to rid itself of its own terrorists. For years, militant Pakistani groups have fought against India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. These groups have been given free rein—if not outright support—from the government of President Pervez Musharraf...
...pressure. Bush needs to act now to defuse the situation. The outbreak of war would not only prove tragic for the people of both nations; it would destabilize the region and deal a serious blow to America’s anti-terrorism “alliance.” Pakistan??s decision to pull troops away from its western border could jeopardize U.S. efforts to secure Afghanistan and locate members of al Qaeda...
...brave can we be? Are we brave enough to halt the bombing, as the United Nations suggests, to aid the thousands of Afghan refugees, so that Pakistan??s fundamentalists and other groups don’t join forces with the Taliban, or join the ranks of the terrorists? Are we brave enough to alter existing policies that might incite terrorism? To stop the sanctions on Iraq and take our troops out of Saudi Arabia? Are we brave enough to look critically at our relationship with Saudi Arabia and ask if our dependence on oil has made...