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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    16 : Pakistan at Sixty: It’s Time to Give Democracy a Chance

    Ishtiaq Ahmed, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    15 August 2007

    On 14 August 2007, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan celebrated its 60th anniversary. It was founded as a result of the partition of British India on a religious basis -the north-western and north-eastern zones of the subcontinent in which the Muslims were in a majority were separated from the rest of India and awarded to Pakistan.