Pakistan: Tradition and ChangeOxfam, 2003 - 72 pages Many dramatic developments have taken place in Pakistan since the publication of the first edition of Oxfame(tm)s Profile (Pakistan: Tradition and Change, 1996). This up-dated edition contains a supplement which summarises the internal tensions and external shocks that have created turbulence which is extreme even for a country that was born in a ferment of change: * The erosion of democracy under civilian rule in the late 1990s * The military takeover of 1999 * Strained relations with India, Afghanistan, and the USA * An economy reeling from the impact of heavy foreign debt and huge defence expenditure * The legacy of the religious fundamentalism of the 1980s, and its impact on state policies and practices * Prospects for a return to democracy The original text, which describes Pakistane(tm)s history and rich cultural heritage, and self-help community schemes run by grassroots groups, is reproduced in full, with the original evocative illustrations; but the social and economic indicators and the resources section have been revised to bring the book up to date. |
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Afghan Afghan refugees Afghanistan agricultural Ahmad areas Baluchistan Basant Benazir Bhutto bricks British carpet centre civilian conflict culture DAVE TOMSON drugs East Pakistan economic elections exports Faiz Faiz Ahmad Faiz farmers Fatima festival foreign forests girls groups growth rate Hindu Indus industrial irrigation Islam Islamabad Karachi Kashmir Khan kites labour Lahore land language Large numbers Let me write literacy lives LIZ CLAYTON major Martial Law MARYAM IQBAL military million Mohenjodaro mosque Muhammad Musharraf Muslim League National Assembly Nawaz Sharif NGOs NWFP organisations Oxfam Pabban Pakistan People's Party Parveen Shakir People's poet poetry political poor poverty President Prime Minister programme Punjab Quetta Razia's region religion rural salinity sector Seraiki Shi'a Sindh social society street Sungi teachers tradition tribal urban Urdu village waterlogging woman women workers workshops ZEHRA HASSAN Zia-ul-Haq Zia's Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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Page 22 - Now I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state.
Page 22 - You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State ... We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of the State.
Page 2 - My country is torrid may be that is why the roof of my house melted and caved in My country is torrid maybe that is why my children are kept thirsty My country is torrid maybe that is why I am kept unclothed. My country is torrid maybe that is why one neither knows of clouds which bring rainfall nor of floods that destroy. And to wreck my harvests, sometimes moneylenders, sometimes wild beasts, sometimes calamities and sometimes self-styled masters arrive. „ > Don't teach me to hate my torrid country...
Page 47 - K. Mumtaz and F. Shaheed, Women of Pakistan. Two steps forward one step back?
Page 2 - Let me dry my wet clothes in these courtyards let my plant gold in its fields let me quench my thirst at its rivers let me rest beneath the shade of its trees let me wear its dust and wrap its distances around me. I don't want the shade of lengthening shadows I have the support of the rays of the rising sun. The sun has made its energy accessible for my country the sun and I * the sun and you cannot walk side by side. The sun has chosen me for company.
Page 24 - The second law categorically states that in matters 'pertaining to financial and future obligations when reduced to writing.. .the evidence of two men or one man and two women will be required' (Shaheed and Mumtaz 1990: 14).
Page 64 - Bush's strong statements after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001...
Page 22 - ... of the state. We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one state... Now...
Page 4 - Persia on the west, Afghanistan on the north, India on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the south. It has an area of about 130,000 square miles and has a population of about 800,000. For description of the Beluchistan rug, see page 290. BERGAMA ( Bêr' gä-mä ) , Bergamo, Berghama, Pergamo.
Page 63 - India took its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir to the United Nations on January 1, 1948. One year later, the United Nations arranged a cease-fire along a line dividing Kashmir roughly in half but leaving the northern end of the line undemarcated and the Vale of Kashmir (with the majority of the population) under Indian control. India and Pakistan agreed to hold a UN supervised plebiscite to determine the state's future, but over time India has proved unwilling to implement this commitment.