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| | East Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | From 1958 to 1971 the administration was largely in the hands of the President of Pakistan and the Governor of East Pakistan who at times held the title of Martial Law Administrator. | | | On 14th October 1955, the last governor of East Bengal (Amiruddin Ahmad) became the first Governor of East Pakistan. | | | At the same time the last Chief Minister of East Bengal became the first Chief Minister of East Pakistan. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan
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| | Pakistan on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In an apparent victory for Sharif, President Leghari resigned in Dec., 1997, and the chief justice of the supreme court was dismissed. | | | East Pakistan's long-standing discontent with the federal government was expressed in 1966 by a movement for increased autonomy, supported by a general strike. | | | Pakistan has a substantial number of universities, including a provincial university in each of the provinces; major universities and specialized schools in Lahore, Karachi, and Faisalabad; and a central university in Islamabad. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/pakistan_history.asp
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| | Pakistan (12/05) |
| | According to the constitution, Pakistan is a federation of four provinces: Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Punjab, and Sindh. | | | Accordingly, on August 14, 1947 Pakistan, comprising West Pakistan with the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), and East Pakistan with the province of Bengal, became independent. | | | The United States and Pakistan established diplomatic relations in 1947. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3453.htm
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| | Islamic Pakistan |
| | But in West Pakistan it could not secure a single seat and the percentage of votes secured by the Awami League in the four provinces of West Pakistan were: 0.07 (Punjab), 0.07 (Sindh) 0.2 (NWFP) and 1.0 (Baluchistan). | | | Thus the general elections of 1970 produced a new political configuration with three distinct centers of power:(i) the AL in East Pakistan: (ii) the PPP in Sindh and the Punjab; and (iii) the NAP-JUI in Baluchistan and the NWFP. | | | The PPP emerged as the single largest party in West Pakistan with majorities in Sindh and the Punjab; and the National Awami Party together with their political ally, Jamiat-ul Ulema-i-Islam, JUI, (of Maulana Mufti Mahmood got clear majorities in Baluchistan and the North West Frontier Province. |
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| | East Pakistan crisis 1971: |
| | In East Bengal most of the government officers, lawyers, almost all the doctors, and school masters, nearly all the considerable landowners and most of the heads of business firms were Hindus. | | | Although Mujib had been insisting, before elections, that six points, stood for the integrity of Pakistan, yet in 1974, he confessed that ‘the final issue had come before the party in 1966, when the party declared its 6 points programme... | | | It achieved resounding victory in Bengal and captured 96.7% of the Muslims seats, of the provincial legislative Assembly in the general elections of 1945-46. |
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http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/dec/east-pak.htm
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| | Pakistan's Jihad Culture |
| | Pakistan's Supreme Court later deemed the special courts unconstitutional. | | | When criminals join private armies, therefore, the political and moral constraints that often inhibit mass-casualty, random attacks are likely to break down. | | | This much Pakistani officials will admit, at least privately. |
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http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.jstern.CSIA.KSG/pakistan.htm
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| | Pakistan Nuclear Weapons |
| | Pakistan does not abide by a no-first-use doctrine, as evidenced by President Pervez Musharraf's statements in May, 2002. | | | Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was established in 1972 by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who founded the program while he was Minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and later became President and Prime Minister. | | | But diplomatic advances made that year were undermined by Pakistan's incursion into Kargil. |
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| | Pakistan -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After having consolidated his grip on power by declaring himself president in June, Musharraf risked a highly unpopular move with his decision—in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11—to side with the U.S. in its war... | | | It was the fourth attempt by a military leader in four decades to restore the rule of law. | | | Muslim threats of civil war then forced the Hindu leaders to agree to the establishment of the separate state of Pakistan. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108520?source=RSSOTD
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| | 1971 India-Pakistan War: Origins of the Crisis |
| | In all fairness, the Sheikh should have been Prime Minister of Pakistan, or at least the ruler of his province. | | | In the Pakistani general elections held in 1970, the Sheikh's party won the majority of seats, securing a complete majority in East Pakistan. | | | Indira Gandhi in a broadcast to the nation declared that India was at war with Pakistan. |
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http://www.freeindia.org/1971war/origins.html
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| | CBC News Indepth: Pakistan |
| | April 1999: Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband are sentenced in absentia to five-year jail terms on charges of corruption. | | | December 1997: President Farooq Leghari resigns after a six- month legal battle to have Sharif investigated for misuse of power during his first premiership. | | | November 1988: Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan People's Party win 39 per cent of vote in general elections. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/pakistan
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| | The Betrayal of East Pakistan (by Ahmad Faruqui) - Media Monitors Network |
| | An exultant Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, and daughter of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, declared that “we have avenged the Muslim capture of Somnath and our history of a thousand years.” | | | To deal with any potential public outcry for justice, Mr. | | | A few month’s prior to the surrender, the Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, and soon to be the new president and first civilian martial law administrator of truncated Pakistan, penned his version of events. |
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http://www.mediamonitors.net/ahmadfaruqui1.html
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| | CBC News Indepth: India and Pakistan |
| | India won independence from British rule, and a new state, a Muslim state, was created. | | | The election victory didn't sit well with West Pakistan, which had Mujibur Rahman arrested and his party banned. | | | Then, in early 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League Party won 167 out of the 313 seats in the Pakistani government. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/india_pakistan
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| | Hindu Genocide in East Pakistan |
| | Numerically Awami League had an absolute majority of seats in the Pakistan National Assembly (167 of the total 313 seats)(1). | | | In the summary of his report dated November 1, 1971 Senator Edward Kennedy writes (6): | | | The Pakistani government's apathy towards East Pakistan after a terrible cyclone in November 1970 in which over 250,000 people died, had alienated East Pakistani people. |
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| | East Pakistan: The End Game |
| | Unknown to most people at the time, the army chief secretly met the East Pakistani leader Mujibur Rehman and asked him not to relent on his demands. | | | From the start, the author makes it clear that the book is based on his diaries and other sources that he had personal access to as the ISPR chief. | | | The East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military establishment of the day but also the abysmal collapse of civil society in West Pakistan. |
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| | STATISTICS OF PAKISTAN'S DEMOCIDE |
| | There have been periods without martial law, constitutions have been drawn up, and elections have been held. | | | This despicable and cutthroat plan was outright genocide. | | | This democide is listed in Table 8.1 (lines 26 to 30), which gives an overview of Pakistan's war-dead and democide from 1958 to 1987, the period over which Pakistan has had authoritarian rule, usually military governments. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP8.HTM
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| | The Separation of East Pakistan [1971] |
| | Trouble started right at the inception of Pakistan in 1947. | | | Since Karachi was the seat of the National Government; ministers, government officials and industrialists exerted immense influence on national and regional affairs, which brought them many benefits. | | | The separation of East Pakistan was a great setback to Pakistan. |
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http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A070
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| | Middle East Institute: Pakistan |
| | Pakistani Embassy, Washington, D.C. Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations | | | Economic Stagnation and Political Instability in Pakistan: An Overview | | | Political Parties: Pakistan Muslim League; Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians; Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan; Altaf faction; Pakhtun Khwa Milli Awami Party; Pakistan People's Party; Jamhoori Watan Party; others |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Pakistan |
| | Supreme Court (justices appointed by the president); Federal Islamic or Shari'a Court | | | The government has made substantial macroeconomic reforms since 2000, although progress on more politically sensitive reforms has slowed. | | | The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disputed Kashmir territory. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pk.html
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| | General Elections 1970 |
| | None of the political parties filed nominations of their candidates on all the seats. | | | Pakistan Peoples Party didn't nominate a single candidate from East Pakistan. | | | There were only 120 candidates contesting the elections on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party, out of which 103 were from the constituencies in the Punjab and Sindh. |
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http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A140&Pg=2
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| | MSN Encarta - Pakistan |
| | The territory was part of the Mughal Empire from 1526 until the 1700s, when it came under British rule. | | | Pakistan controls a portion of the territory as Azad (Free) Kashmīr and the Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA), while India controls a portion as the state of Jammu and Kashmīr. | | | The area of present-day Pakistan was the cradle of the earliest known civilization of South Asia, the Indus Valley civilization (2500?-1700 bc). |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761560851
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| | East Pakistan on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Pakistan Minister Leaves for Middle East Forum in Bahrain | | | Opening in South Asia; India and Pakistan's vision of prosperity is desperately needed in the Middle East. | | | Pakistan's Musharraf leaves on six-day visit of Middle East to attend Islamic summit |
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| | [Genocide/1971] The Events in East Pakistan |
| | The Indian Government asked that the visit of the Commission should be postponed, but as the members of the Commission were not available at a later date, the Commission of Enquiry had to be cancelled. | | | Nearly all these statements have been made by European and American nationals who were in East Pakistan at the time. | | | This Staff Study contains a factual account of the events which occurred in East Pakistan from March to December 1971, together with a discussion of some of the legal issues involved. |
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http://www.globalwebpost.com/genocide1971/docs/jurists/1_preface.htm
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| | East Pakistan - definition of East Pakistan by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Originally part of Bengal, it was held by the British from c. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | madrasa, madrasah - Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia" |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/East+Pakistan
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| | pakistan map and map of pakistan and information page |
| | Then, in 1971, East Pakistan demanded independence, and after a bloody civil war it was transformed into what is now called the country of Bangladesh. | | | Those two partitions were called East and West Pakistan and they were separated (right down the middle) by India. | | | In addition, a number of extremist groups within Pakistan continue to target American and other Western interests, high-level Pakistani government officials, as well as members of minority indigenous groups. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Pakistan helps Iran nuclear probe |
| | A spokesman for the IAEA in Vienna, Mark Gwozdecky, told the BBC the investigation was not against Pakistan's nuclear programme, but only to establish whether or not Iran had an active uranium enrichment programme. | | | He has admitted involvement in the transfer of nuclear secrets to Iran. | | | Mr Gwozdecky described it as a highly sensitive matter and said all he could confirm was that a team of Pakistani scientists has arrived in Vienna with some samples. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Pakistan and Saudi unite on terror |
| | At a banquet hosted by Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, he said: "The killers and terrorists are enemies of Islam and they want to frustrate the entire Islamic enterprise of culture and civilisation. | | | Pakistan and the US - friends in need? | | | The developments came during a visit to Pakistan by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. |
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| | Middlesex University > International Students > Gulf, Middle East and Pakistan |
| | This website is designed to help and assist students, parents, advisors, alumni, and friends of Middlesex University to access information specific to the Gulf, Middle East and Pakistan | | | Welcome to Middlesex University, Gulf, Middle East and Pakistan Region. | | | Middlesex University > International Students > Gulf, Middle East and Pakistan |
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