General Pervez Musharraf

Fire and the federation

Despite persistent tensions, Pakistan’s ethnic groups have developed enough stakes in the country to prevent it from splintering.

| Jun 01, 2010

Subduing the control freak

Further along Pakistan´s never-ending democratic transition.

| Jun 01, 2010

Democracy will not go back into the bottle

Gen Musharraf appears to have won this round, but the people of Pakistan are sure to win the next. What has changed is that the judges are on the side of the people.

| Dec 10, 2007

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