In the Line of Fire
by Pervez Musharraf
Buy on AmazonThis is an unprecedented report from the front line of the war on terror by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. The text tells the full story of the events that brought Musharraf to power in 1999; and provides insights into the Muslim world in the 21st century.
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"Ayesha Siddiqa is a Pakistani woman who has meticulously researched how the military has expanded from just being an army to being a state within a state, with control over, for example, the country’s largest highway construction company. The Pakistani army is today the largest single landowner in both urban and rural areas. It is quite a brave book for a Pakistani woman to write because she made a lot of enemies in the process of the research and publishing it. Here I would link back to Benazir’s book and say it is also a signal that while Pakistan has many problems it also has a very vibrant civil society and a very vibrant and outspoken middle class, which is demanding that Pakistan look forward and not turn itself into a Islamic emirate of some kind. That is the hope in Pakistan. People like Ms Bhutto and Dr Siddiqa have the courage to take on the dark forces in Pakistan."
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