Elected heads of state in Pakistan have been overthrown four times by military dictators since Pakistan's founding in 1947. The last elected leader, Nawaz Sharif, was ousted by Pakistan's chief of the armed forces, General Pervez Musharraf, in October...
Pakistan is perhaps the most notorious political enigma in the second half of the 20th century. It was conceived as a nation-state for a minority community of 100 million Muslims of British India who felt threatened by the political ambitions of the majority Hindu...
In modern Muslim States there has been a tendency towards Islamic regeneration. Contemporary Muslim countries have organized themselves on international basis with creation of a number of organizations. These muslim organizations have commitment to take care for the fulfillment of the needs and the...
Weeks after Pervez Musharraf engineered a coup and seized control of Pakistan in 1999, George W. Bush was asked in an interview to name that country’s new leader. He admitted that he had no idea. And it didn’t really hurt him, probably because most Americans...
NEW DELHI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - India and Pakistan reaffirmed their commitment to a nearly four-year military truce on Thursday as they launched a new series of peace talks that are expected to achieve little due to domestic political pressures. Top officials of the...
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