Pakistan: A Modern History by Ian Talbot

Pakistan: A Modern History



Download Pakistan: A Modern History




Pakistan: A Modern History Ian Talbot ebook
ISBN: 1850653518, 9781850653516
Format: pdf
Publisher:
Page: 426


Although the modern nation of Pakistan was but fifty-three years old in 2000, it has territorial areas and tribal populations whose histories date back many centuries; thus Pakistan has both an ancient and a relatively new identity. However, because the territory that is now Pakistan has a history that goes back several thousand years, the area has a history that forms part of the present identity of Pakistan. Under commonly held perceptions of Pakistan's history, the country's Islamization begins only in the late 1970s with the sclerotic military dictatorship of General Zia ul-Haq. Twice removed as PM with less than half his term power from the military establishment, and is clearly making headway on Pakistan's pressing economic challenges. Pakistan: a very modern history. On these points see Ian Talbot, Pakistan: A Modern History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Shuja Nawaz, Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army and the Wars Within (Oxford Karachi, 2008). Ian Talbot, a professor at the University of Southampton, is author of Pakistan: A Modern History . Pakistan's elections have returned Nawaz Sharif to power nearly fourteen years after he was deposed by Pervez Musharraf, and imprisoned, before he was allowed to slip away to exile in Saudi Arabia. As The New York Times reported, “A crippling strike by Islamist parties brought Pakistan to a standstill on Friday as thousands of people took to the streets, and forced businesses to close, to head off any change in the country's blasphemy law, which rights groups say has been used to persecute minorities, especially Christians.” There is no way we can determine the 10 Downing Street and changed the course of British history. The United States declared Pakistan a "frontline state" .. Coventry University historian Talbot piles fact upon grim fact to show how Pakistan, born in suffering, has yet to heal the wounds of its past.