Pakistan: a country on fire
Pakistan after Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by an assassin on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, just after making a speech to supporters of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Pakistan: the power of the gun
Pakistan is in the midst of yet another crisis. The country’s general-president, Pervez Musharraf, imposed a state of “emergency plus” on 3 November 2007.
Pakistan’s permanent crisis
The streets of Pakistan have in recent days resonated with strikes, gunfire, and the cries of demonstrators. A crisis sparked by the suspension of the supreme court’s chief justice on 9 March 2007 has exploded into a full-scale emergency with no end in sight. The turmoil raises acute questions about Pakistan’s political future. But it also highlights a more deep-rooted question regarding the very possibility of political and economic progress in a country so heavily dominated by one institution: the Pakistani military.