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Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
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The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye t...
Mian: Pakistan and the Islamist Challenge
Znet Article, January, 05 2009
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The urgent challenge now is for Pakistan and its neighbors, together with the international community, to work together to confront the risk of Pakistan spiraling into chaos and collapse.
Mian: MAD: Ten Years of the Bomb and the Obstacles to Peace in South Asia
Znet Article, July, 14 2008
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The consequences of ten years of India and Pakistan having nuclear arms.
Mian: Ten Years After
Znet Article, May, 21 2008
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It has taken America’s leaders a long time to learn the lessons of nuclear weapons. President Harry Truman, who took the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki called the atomic bomb the “greatest thing in history.” Almost 20 years later, with Am...
Mian: Rule of Force vs. Rule of Law in Pakistan
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
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In a desperate bid to stay in power, General Pervez Musharraf has staged a coup against the rule of law in Pakistan. His declaration of martial law, suspension of the constitution and basic rights was aimed at overthrowing Pakistan's Supreme Court...
Mian: A review of Nuclear Black Markets
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
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Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan's activities for about 30 years. In 1979, the Washington Post named him as the Pakistani engineer who had left his position at the uranium enrichment centrifuge facility at Almelo, Netherlands, ...
Mian: The Costs of War
Znet Article, March, 27 2008
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The war has exposed the limits of American military power...
Mian: Pakistan's Khaki President
Znet Article, January, 05 2008
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In November 2007, eight years after he first seized power, and six years after declaring himself president, General Pervez Musharraf staged his second coup against the rule of law in Pakistan. He declared martial law, suspended the Constitution an...
Mian: How Not to Handle Nuclear Security
Znet Article, December, 16 2007
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The United States recently admitted that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, it has been helping Pakistan secure its nuclear weapons and the materials used to make them. Pakistan has welcomed this assistance. A former Pakistani general who wa...
Mian: How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
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The United States sells death, destruction, and terror as a fundamental instrument of its foreign policy. It sees arms sales as a way of making and keeping strategic friends and tying countries more directly to U.S. military planning and operati...
Mian: Pakistan Under Siege
Znet Article, August, 24 2007
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Pakistan is 60 years old. For over 40 years of its life, it has been ruled directly or indirectly by its army. Each cycle of military rule has left the country in desperate crisis. The rule of General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in 1999...
Mian: Pakistan in the region
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
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Pakistan in the region
Mian: The U.N.'s unfinished nuclear business
Znet Article, January, 03 2007
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The United Nations General Assembly passed its first resolution in 1946. In the shadow of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the highest priority of the new body was a call for plans "for the elimination from national armam...
Mian: America, Iran and the Nuclear Option
Znet Article, May, 16 2006
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On April 18, at a White House press conference, president George Bush was asked “when you talk about Iran, and you talk about how you have diplomatic efforts, you also say all options are on the table. Does that include the possibility of ...
Mian: Controlling the Bomb
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
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EPW Letter from America, February 11, 2006 US efforts to check "proliferation" are hypocritical as well as ineffective. Since the US (and other nuclear powers) are not engaged in disarmament, the hopefuls are not convinced about why they should b...
Mian: Blinded by the Bomb
Znet Article, November, 18 2005
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For decades, leaders of India and Pakistan have been bewitched by the power of the bomb. Regardless of their various other differences, they seem to have believed that the threat of massive destruction represented by nuclear weapons is a force for...
Mian: The United States, China and India:
Znet Article, September, 25 2005
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The past few months have seen important developments in relations between the US and India. Much of the commentary has focused resolutely and rightly on the wisdom and possible consequences of the new agreements on military and nuclear policy and ...
Mian: Feeding the Nuclear Fire
Znet Article, September, 09 2005
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This article was first published in Economic and Political Weekly, August 27, 2005. The July 18 joint statement by US president George Bush and prime minister Manmohan Singh has attracted a great deal of comment. The focus has been the possible c...
Mian: Unravelling of the US Military
Znet Article, July, 28 2005
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In a recent speech at Fort Bragg, a major US military base, president Bush declared, "There is no higher calling than service in our armed forces." It seems fewer and fewer young Americans and their parents agree with him. The US military is findi...
Mian: Lingering Shadows
Znet Article, June, 11 2005
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Recent weeks have seen many events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war. There has been little or no discussion of some of the most important and enduring legacies of that war that have cast a lo...
Mian: American Domination is in Trouble
Znet Article, April, 24 2005
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In 1997, a group of conservative American politicians, academics and policy brokers announced ‘The Project for a New American Century’. The line up reads like a who’s who of important players in the Bush administration...
Mian: Peace in South Asia?
Znet Article, February, 05 2004
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In the first week of January, a summit was held in Islamabad between Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf of Pakistan. The summit, the conference that preceded it, and the talks that are expected to follow, have been hailed...
Mian: October Elections in Pakistan
Znet Article, December, 17 2002
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In October 2002, Pakistan had its first national and provincial elections under the military order established by General Pervez Musharraf after his October 1999 coup. With sweeping changes to the constitution, new election laws, and after de...
Mian: Pakistan and Iraq
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
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[Talk given at American Friends Service Committee Conference, 'Paths to a Just and Secure Future: Resisting Washington's Endless War' October 12, 2002] It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and y...
