Pakistan - News and Discussion 6

[Naresh]

<b>The Second Article in the Pakistani Media in the last week or two criticising Religious Political Parties and the formation of States due to Separatist Nationalism which I take it to be of not only the Racial-Ethnic but also the Religious, Linguist etc. types</b>

<b>Our foreign policy fantasies —Khaled Ahmed’s Review of the Urdu press</b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>In Balochistan the elected government means nothing. The power lies with the three sardars and they want a new dispensation for the province with a lot of general Baloch nationalist support. It is also axiomatic that <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>a state formed on the basis of separatist nationalism begins to gestate further separatisms after becoming free.</span></b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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