<b>The swing of the pendulum</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>Pakistan is a state within the army and not the army within the state. <i>The more things change the more they remain the same.</i> The history of Pakistan shows that there has been a swing of pendulum of the civil and military supremacy. For the first 10 years, Pakistan was governed under the Government of India Act of 1935. The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan failed for seven long years to enact the Constitution. Eventually when the draft was ready, in 1954, Governor General Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the Constituent Assembly and appointed a Cabinet with the C-in-C, General Ayub Khan, as Defence Minister. Thus, the Governor General, himself a bureaucrat, invited the Army Chief into the corridors of power.</b><!--emo&
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