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Zia's highly publicized campaign to strengthen Islamic values in Pakistani society has proved deeply divisive. He sees it as the only means of unifying the country's disparate ethnic groups, but the drive has alienated the intelligentsia and students, who deplore strictures on female behavior and on...
On Pakistan's security: Pakistan is faced with a problem next door, in Afghanistan, where the Soviet Union now has 100,000 troops. I don't think you can intimidate a nation like Pakistan with the presence of troops next door. But it has brought a qualitative change...
Azerbaijan Party Chief Geidar Ali Rza ogly Aliyev, 59, has been largely ignored by many Western observers, who assumed that a non-Russian would have difficulty rising to the top. His double promotion last week changed that by putting him in line to become the Soviet Union's first...
There are indications, however, that the spirit of martyrdom that infused Iran's previous offensives is deteriorating. Iranians are shunning military service, and the Khomeini regime has had to take drastic measures to fill the army's ranks. On Nov. 1, Khomeini told all students and civil servants...
But such influences are melded into a wholly modernist idiom. Hodgkin does to the Indian miniature what Matisse did to Islamic decoration; the source is not simply quoted but transformed. The miniaturist's precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system-nursery...