Ghulam mustafa jatoi of pakistan vs bangladesh
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50 Years Later: The Future of Pakistan-Bangladesh Relations
16 December 1971 is a historic date for Pakistan and Bangladesh, when Pakistan was dismembered and Bangladesh formally became an independent and sovereign state. The date is etched in the minds of millions of people in Pakistan and Bangladesh. History has few parallels to the events of 1971, which led to the second partition of the subcontinent and changed the political landscape of South Asia. Regarded as a civil war, there were calls for accountability in Pakistan, however it is celebrated as the war of liberation in Bangladesh. Unlike most other people who have separated, it was the majority population which chose to part ways with the minority.Looking back, 50 years later, the unusual structural configuration of the Pakistani state may have contributed to its break-up, with two wings separated by over 1000 miles of unfriendly territory.
The majority homogeneous population of the eastern wing, far distanced fr
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PAKISTAN / THE OLD GUARD RETURNS : Spurned bygd Bhutto, He Gets Even
LONDON — He was one of the “uncles,” a key party elder who served for decades as adviser, alter ego and personal confidant of Benazir Bhutto’s father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
He stood beside the elder Bhutto whether in power or in prison, holding six separate Cabinet posts during Zulfikar’s sju years of rule, then spending a year in solitary confinement after the 1977 military coup that drove the elder Bhutto from power.
More than anything else, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was Old Guard, patriarch of a political family even older than the Bhuttos. And when the young and charismatic Bhutto daughter returned to sydasiatiskt land in 1986 from exile, promising to lead the nation from the darkness of martial law into a new dawn of democracy, Jatoi, it appeared, had outlived his usefulness.
The split was a public one, irreparable. And, in many ways, it sowed the seeds of Benazir’s recent fall from power. For now, Bhutto fryst vatten ou
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Jamaat at the core
This story was first published on May 10, 2013 at http://thedailystar.net
The judgment in the war crimes trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Kamaruzzaman yesterday widely discussed the role of his party in organising the collaborating forces during the Liberation War, 1971.
The Jamaat, a religion-based political party and brainchild of controversial Islamist thinker Maulana Maududi, was significantly pro-active in its mission to wipe out the Bangalee nation in the name of shielding Pakistan in collaboration with the Pakistan occupation army.
International Crimes Tribunal-2, which handed down the death sentence to Kamaruzzaman yesterday for crimes committed against humanity in 1971, also said the party was behind the formation of Al-Badr, the force infamous for planning the killing of Bangalee intellectuals.
"In continuation of the earlier segment of this judgment which relates to the 'brief historical background' we deem it indispensable to get a scenario on th