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:: Opinion : By Harold A. Gould |
South Asia's tryst with democracy here to stay
In our understandable preoccupation with the political events unfolding in Pakistan, we may be doing an injustice to an equally compelling process that is taking place across much of South Asia. While we focus our attention on the struggle of democracy to emerge in Pakistan, India's western frontier, very little notice has been taken of a comparable democratic process that is struggling to be born in Nepal, on India's northern frontier.
Handling Pakistan's Democracy: A New Challenge for US' Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger, of all people, has declared in a recent OpEd published in the Washington Post and elsewhere, that the US would do well to recognize that "the internal structure of Pakistani politics is essentially out of the control of American decision-making." This is truly a remarkable statement coming as it does from one who in his heyday rivaled John Foster Dulles in doing his utmost to assure that the internal structure of Pakistani politics remained subservient to US strategic interests and anathema to India's.
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