50 Years On, Pakistan Continues To Censor 1971’s War Of Liberation
50 Years On, Pakistan Continues To Censor 1971’s War Of Liberation
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LAHORE, Pakistan The cancellation of an event in Pakistan commemorating Bangladesh’s 50 years of independence has precipitated the debate around Pakistan’s acknowledgment of war crimes.
Pakistan’s Lahore University of Management Sciences and National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, had organized
the online event titled “War, Violence & Memory: Commemorating 50 Years of the 1971 War” from March 23 to 27.
The organizers did not point out the reasons for the cancellation of the event. When approached,
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By July 2007, General Musharraf had started feeling nervous. He felt he needed to reach out and build a good opinion of himself among those with a voice in society beyond the bubble he had come to inhabit.
Several evenings with small numbers of ‘thought leaders’ were arranged around the country. This writer was invited to one. We were allowed to question the general. On my turn, I asked him about his declared intent to contest the election for the presidency while remaining army chief. I reminded him that doing so would be unconstitutional. The general laughed loudly. ‘I will tell my lawyers to scribble something on a piece of paper which I will sign and it will become law and will allow me to do what I intend to do.’ I persisted, ‘That would destroy the spirit of the constitution.’ The general was not going to back off. He responded, ‘I will do something about the spirit too.’
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8 April 2021 14:30–15:45
Moderators: Shandana Khan Mohmand (IDS) and Umair Javed (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Date: 8th April 2021
Time: 2:30 PM UK
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