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Although it achieved independence in 1947, Pakistan still has not succeeded in integrating its diverse peoples into a nation-as its short yet turbulent history vividly demonstrates. The nation's search for stability is traced in this revised and updated introduction to Pakistan's political, economic, and social development. New chapters detail political developments since 1991, including the elections of 1993 and 1996. Economic changes, including the financial crisis that led to the fall of Benazir Bhutto's government in 1996, are given particular attention. Also included is an extensive analysis of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, an issue of global concern.
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Although it achieved independence in 1947, Pakistan still has not succeeded in integrating its diverse peoples into a nation-as its short yet turbulent history vividly demonstrates. The nation's search for stability is traced in this revised and updated introduction to Pakistan's political, economic, and social development. New chapters detail political developments since 1991, including the elections of 1993 and 1996. Economic changes, including the financial crisis that led to the fall of Benazir Bhutto's government in 1996, are given particular attention. Also included is an extensive analysis of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, an issue of global concern.
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Shahid Javed Burki was educated at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and at Harvard University as a Mason Fellow. Burki’s career at the World Bank began in 1974 with appointment as senior economist of the Policy Planning and Program Review Department. In 1982 he was appointed director of the International Relations Department, and later served as director of the China Department. He then began a two-year stint as Finance and Planning Minister of the Pakistani government. Burki was a also member of the care-taker government that took office following the dismissal of Ms. Bhutto; he was in charge of the portfolios of finance, planning and economic affairs. Mr. Burki has since re-joined the World Bank as vice-president of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office.Burki has written extensively on the political economy of both China and Pakistan.
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League campaigned hard but not very long for the establishment of Pakistan as an independent state for the Muslims of British India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operation fair play, sajjada nashins, caretaker administration, landed community, public sector corporations, caretaker prime minister, basic democracies, caretaker government, poor governance, military associates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ayub Khan, Benazir Bhutto, United States, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, General Zia, Muslim League, Middle East, British India, West Pakistan, Yahya Khan, East Pakistan, World Bank, Soviet Union, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, South Asia, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan People's Party, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Third World, Saudi Arabia, Supreme Court, Constituent Assembly, Indus Valley, North America New!
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League campaigned hard but not very long for the establishment of Pakistan as an independent state for the Muslims of British India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operation fair play, sajjada nashins, caretaker administration, landed community, public sector corporations, caretaker prime minister, basic democracies, caretaker government, poor governance, military associates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ayub Khan, Benazir Bhutto, United States, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, General Zia, Muslim League, Middle East, British India, West Pakistan, Yahya Khan, East Pakistan, World Bank, Soviet Union, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, South Asia, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan People's Party, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Third World, Saudi Arabia, Supreme Court, Constituent Assembly, Indus Valley, North America New!
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- Pakistan Under Bhutto by Shahid Javed Burki on 4 pages
- The Myth of Independence by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on page 205, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women of Pakistan: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back by Khawar Mumtaz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- India Britannica by Geoffrey Moorhouse in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Pakistan: National Human Development Report 2003: Poverty, Growth and Governance by Akmal Hussain on page 33, and Back Matter
- Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan by Sean Maloney in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- At the Frontlines of Development: Reflections from the World Bank (Lessons from Experience) by Indermit S. Gill in Back Matter
- Insight Guide Pakistan (Insight Guides) by Tony Holliday on page 388
- Power and Civil Society in Pakistan by Anita M. Weiss on page 164
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