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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External Links

Profiles

• "History of Pakistan" in the Wikipedia.

Documents

• 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.
• William Burr, ed., "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.
• Congressional Research Service Reports:
  • Pakistan: Chronology of Events, updated February 7, 2006.
  • Pakistan-U.S. Relations, updated February 10, 2006.

Articles & Commentary

2000

• Syed Ahmed Tariq Mir, "Pakistan, A Failed State," October 1, 2000: "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."

2002

• Javed Amir, "A Failed State with Nuclear Weapons," Dawn, November 24, 2002.

2003

• "Pakistan: The world's next failed state?," pakistan-facts.com, February 28, 2003.

2004

• "Pakistan hires Bush's man as US lobbyist," sify.com, February 10, 2004: "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'."
• Leon Hadar, "Were We All Wrong About Pakistan, Too?," Cato Institute, March 1, 2004: "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."

2006

• "Bush's Pakistan problem," San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2006.
• Terence Hunt, "Bush: Pakistan Committed to War on Terror," Associated Press (ABC News), March 4, 2006.
• "Bush convinced of Pakistan commitment in terror war," Reuters (Washington Post), March 4, 2006.