Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives February 2008 No. 2 Vol. 6
Pakistan on the Brink

Pakistan on the Brink

The Future of a Key American Ally

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Excerpt

(Excerpted From International Debates, February 2008)
The nation of Pakistan has been much in the news recently, mostly for negative reasons.
On November 3, 2007, the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, issued an emergency
declaration cracking down on an uncooperative judiciary and stifling free speech and
assembly. Although the state of emergency was lifted the following month after a
domestic and international outcry, on December 27, former Prime Minster Benazir
Bhutto, the charismatic head of the most influential opposition party, was assassinated in
an orchestrated shooting/suicide bombing attack tha…

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Is the Present U.S. Foreign Aid Package to Pakistan Adequately Addressing the Problems in the Region?

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