Articles by Ayesha Siddiqa
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The Mystery that is Pakistan
Lack of political consensus, breakdown of civilian institutions and the rise of authoritarianism have turned Pakistan into a battleground for stakeholders with conflicting interests, who pose a challenge to the sovereignty of the state.
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Why is Pakistan unable to fight authoritarianism and military rule unlike the Latin American countries which managed to confront US-backed dictatorships and emerge victorious? Two books by Tariq Ali may provide the answer.
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Sixty years after Partition, peace between the two neighbours remains elusive…
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The Pakistan military is among several other armed forces in the world engaged in commercial ventures. Today, its financial empire has an approximate financial size of 200 billion rupees.
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North Korea takes the plunge to join the select club of nuclear weapons states.
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A set of flimsy assumptions, rather than the prospect of a nuclear holocaust, appear to be restraining India and Pakistan from nuclear conflict.
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The presence of US bases in almost all major continents has had negative political ramifications on the latters’ politics, environment and ecology.
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