Pakistan

In August 2001, Pakistan was described as having "failed to achieve political stability, sustained economic growth or a clear sense of national identity."[1]

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Other SourceWatch Resources

• Afghanistan
• Bush administration
• Bush lies and deceptions: The Pakistani Exception
• Iran
• nation branding
• North Korea
• nuclear weapons
• Pax Americana, Africa
• Saudi Arabia
• weapons of mass destruction

External Links

• "History of Pakistan," Wikipedia
• William Burr-editor, "China, Pakistan, and the Bomb: The Declassified File on U.S. Policy, 1977-1997", National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 114, March 5, 2004
• December 10, 1971 taped conversation of President Richard M. Nixon and Treasury Secretary John Connally, discussing Nixon's secret intervention into the 1971 War between Pakistan and India. A part of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia's Nixon online exhibit.
• Congressional Research Service Reports
  • Pakistan: Chronology of Events, updated February 7, 2006
  • Pakistan-U.S. Relations, updated February 10, 2006

Headlines

• 1 October 2000: "Pakistan, A Failed State" by Syed Ahmed Tariq Mir, Member of the Central Co-ordination Committee, MQM, said in the SAPRA conference, that the effects of partition are visible in Pakistan even after 53 years of independence. He said Pakistan is ruled by 46 families and that the Mohajir population of over 30 million is being kept hostage by the Punjabi dominated Pakistani establishment."
• 24 November 2002: "A Failed State with Nuclear Weapons" by Javed Amir, Dawn.
• 28 February 2003: "Pakistan: The world's next failed state?," pakistan-facts.com.
• 10 February 2004: "Pakistan hires Bush's man as US lobbyist," sify.com: "Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has hired Frank Howard, Jr., the man who managed President George W. Bush's election campaign in 2001, as his key lobbyist in Washington. ... Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the acting parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, told the Dawn newspaper that Howard was running a public relations firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and had played an important role in the Bush-Cheney election campaign. ... When contacted at his hotel, Howard confirmed that he was running a public relations firm named 'Eagle' and was here on 'business'."
• 1 March 2004: "Were We All Wrong About Pakistan, Too?" by Leon Hadar, Cato Institute: "The revelation that a leading Pakistani scientist has been running a smuggling operation that provided nuclear military designs to Iran, Libya, and North Korea, has ignited 'Shocked! Shocked! Shocked!' outcries in Washington. After all, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear military program is a national hero in a country that President Bush has described as a key 'ally' of the United States in the war against terrorism and the campaign to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). And Khan was a close associate of President Pervez Musharraf, the recipient of huge amounts of American military and economic aid."