Word: stated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gain domestic acceptance and international legitimacy for continued military rule, Musharraf has announced an agenda for "good governance" which includes reviving the economy, ensuring financial and political accountability, depoliticizing state institutions, providing justice, rebuilding national cohesion and strengthening the federation through the devolution of power...
...have taken upon themselves to obliterate. Financial and political accountability and the delivery of justice requires the rule of law, the first casualty of a military intervention. Musharraf himself is responsible for superimposing the military's dictates over the supreme law of the land, the constitution. Blatant abuse of state power and institutional corruption were rampant in past Pakistani military regimes, but no dictator held himself, or his regime, accountable before the superior courts. Every military withdrawal took place after the high command acquired constitutional protection for its actions. It is unlikely that the present regime will do otherwise...
...also a supreme irony for a military junta to claim it intends to depoliticize state institutions. Not only will the armed forces play a direct political role but they will work, as in the past, through the civil bureaucracy, picking and choosing their civilian allies and in the process undermining institutional norms and procedures. In its first few weeks in power, the Musharraf regime has already appointed and dismissed a number of key bureaucrats and political expediency will continue to dictate its interaction with the civil administration...
...With the October coup, Pakistan is back to square one and time is fast running out. Should the present junta decide to retain power indefinitely, depriving 130 million Pakistanis of democratic avenues for bargaining, participation and dissent, political instability and internal divisions will threaten the very fabric of a state where history has the tendency of repeating itself as a farce...
...they wanted to know what it felt like to be on the first trio, all they need do is ask at a family reunion. The Demarcos, who played together for Michigan State in 1969-70, are cousins of their mom, Anna...