Pakistan’s Political Situation Page 1 of 3 PAKISTAN’S CURRENT SITUATION CONTEXTUAL OVERVIEW OF PAKISTAN The economic blues continue to encircle Pakistan’s fragile economy‚ which is faced with Many challenges such as high commodity prices‚ wheat/sugar crisis‚ declining exports‚ Current account deficits‚ severe power shortage‚ low literacy rate‚ paramount political And geo-strategic issues. Stagnating health facilities‚ poverty‚ unemployment‚ regional and provincial disparity are the hallmark
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Status of Women in Pakistan The status of women in Pakistan varies considerably across classes‚ regions‚ and the rural/urban divide due to uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal‚ feudal‚ and capitalist social formations on women’s lives. The Pakistani women of today enjoy a better status than most Muslim women. Women in Pakistan have progressed in various fields of life such as politics‚ education‚ economy‚ services‚ health and many more. However‚ on an average‚ the women’s situation
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FOREIGN POLICY at Brookings The Future of Pakistan Stephen P. Cohen South Asia Initiative THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN Stephen P. Cohen The Brookings Institution Washington‚ D.C. January 2011 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen P. Cohen is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings. He came to Brookings in 1998 after a long career as professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois. Dr. Cohen previously served as scholar-in-residence at the Ford Foundation
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politics‚ climbing the rungs from local to regional to national party activities and building on prior successes. Other women rise during transitional periods; while others still‚ such as Benazir Bhutto‚ acquire office through familial ties to politically prominent men and develop their own right to political power. Bhutto‚ born in Karachi in 1953‚ attended both Radcliffe College and Oxford University and graduated with degrees in philosophy‚ politics‚ and economics. Having dealt with the assassination
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Civil war followed after Yahya‚ supported by Bhutto‚ ordered troops to arrest Mujib and put down the Bengali uprising. The east-west war ended in December 1971. Yahya handed over power to Bhutto‚ who ruled until July 1977‚ before being over-thrown after an opposition campaign against alleged rigging in general elections. Gen. Zia-ul-Haq took over-initially to hold elections and transfer power to a civilian regime. But elections were twice postponed and Bhutto was tried for the murder of a political opponent
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Pakistan is a federal republic with a population of approximately 173 million. During the year‚ civilian democratic rule was restored in the country. President Asif Ali Zardari‚ widower of assassinated Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto‚ became head of state on September 6‚ replacing former President Pervez Musharraf‚ who resigned on August 18. International observers noted that parliamentary elections on February 18‚ while flawed‚ were competitive and reflected the will of
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Third democratic era (1988–1999) Main articles: Benazir Bhutto‚ Nawaz Sharif‚ Indo-Pakistani War of 1999‚ Chagai-I‚ Chagai-II‚ Atlantique Incident‚ and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) From 1988 to 1999‚ Pakistan through constitutional amendments was reverted back to Parliamentary democracy system‚ and Pakistan was ruled by elected civilian governments‚ alternately headed by Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif‚ who were each elected twice and removed from office on charges of corruption. During
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How does Malala Yousafzai adapt the features and functions of spoken language to achieve specific outcomes in different outcomes? On 12th July 2013 Malala Yousafzai gave her United Nations speech on her sixteenth birthday. Throughout the speech Yousafzai displays many paralinguistic and prosodic features associated with formal situations‚ for example she is standing on a rostrum in the center of the room facing the audience with a row behind and on the side of her‚ she is standing up straight which
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Pakistan‚ how much time it will take to throw it away due to its mismanaged policies‚ bribary‚ crossroad games or whatever? The very crux of the questions is that Pakistan’s democratic polititians were exiled from Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. Now they are out of Pakistan but they are not out of the scence. The day they came to know about the upcoming elections in Pakistan‚ they just started struggle to renter the country in one way or other. They are even ready to enter through legal
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far behind. Bibliography Primary Source: * In the Line of Fire: a Memoir ‘Pervez Musharraf‘. Free Press 2006 *Reconciliation: Islam‚ democracy and the West ‘Benazir Bhutto’. New York Harper 2008 *The Struggle Within‚ John Wilson: foreword by Vikram Sood. Upper Saddle
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