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...During this past summer, Pakistan wrestled with these issues in an intense and all-too-tragic way. In response to the excesses of an armed extremist movement based in an Islamic school, Pakistan??s military forces laid siege to the extremists’ compound. Following a series of dramatic, bloody battles, the complex was cleared, though at tremendous cost: approximately 350 dead and injured. In the weeks that followed, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t have a strong opinion on the incident and its ramifications. Yet amidst the many viewpoints...
...president, saying that the University’s cooperation with Pakistan reached back to the country’s inception in 1947, concluding that Musharraf’s presence illustrated the vibrancy of the Kennedy School.What it was not, of course, was a sign of the vitality of Pakistan??s democracy, for there was none. President Musharraf was, and still is, a military dictator. “Our dictator,” to be sure, but a dictator nonetheless.When Musharraf took the podium, it was to deliver a relatively uncontroversial speech supporting President Bush?...
...inspiration from? What about Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Iran? [Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan??s history that I respect very much. Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and then Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founding father of Pakistan [Muhammed Ali Jinnah], who helped him create my country. These two are personalities that inspire me.THC: You mentioned earlier the necessity...
...complex region of the world, and I think lumping it with the rest of Asia just doesn’t give it justice in that sense,” Vasan said.Nonetheless, the group’s constitution still specifically mentions eight different countries—from Sri Lanka to Pakistan??in its area of focus.‘YOU DON’T LOOK CHINESE?’The president of the Black Students Association (BSA), Nneka C. Eze ’07, pointed out that the 300 members of her group span not just several countries?...
...despite its longstanding defiance of the NPT, to develop a better and stronger military nuclear program. Iran and North Korea could not have asked for a better occurrence to defend their respective nuclear ambitions—not to mention the Bush administration’s now-hypocritical stance on Pakistan??s nuclear technologies...