Guiding Democracy in Pakistan

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Are the United States and wider international community partly responsible for Pakistan's political meltdown? Even before the year-end slaying of Benazir Bhutto, General Pervez Musharraf's abrupt imposition of emergency rule triggered a downward spiral, upending the country's legal institutions and putting in doubt the legitimacy of the electoral exercise scheduled for next month. The U.N. Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Hina Jilani, a Pakistani who ironically is now herself in the situation of an embattled human rights defender, led a roundtable discussion at The Century Foundation on 20 December 2007 about Guiding Democracy in Pakistan: Has the International Community Failed? For more information (including transcripts of the event), please visit: http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=EV&pubid=210

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Uploaded: January 23rd, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
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