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 ipedia.com: Pakistan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although dominion status was ended in 1956 with the formation of a Constitution and a declaration of Pakistan as an Islamic Republic, the military took control in 1958 and held power for more than 10 years.
Civilian rule returned after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, but was interrupted in the late 70s, with the execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was convicted of murdering a political opponent in a controversial split decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
During the 1980s, Pakistan received substantial aid from the United States and took in millions of Afghan - mostly Pashtun - refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
www.ipedia.com /pakistan.html   (2299 words)

  
 The Poetry House
Suhrawardy, who emigrated to Pakistan after the Partition of 1947 came to be regarded as the country’s senior anglophone poet, alongside Ahmed Ali, who is better known as a novelist.
Taufiq Rafat, Maki Qureishi, Daud Kamal, Alamgir Hashmi and the expatriates Zulfiqar Ghose, Moniza Ali and Imtiaz Dharkar have consolidated the anglophone tradition in Pakistani poetry.
Among other South Asian countries Sri Lanka has a thriving anglophone tradition that includes a number of talented poets: Patrick Fernando, Lakdasa Wikkramasinha, Jean Arasanayagam, Richard de Zoysa, and the expatriates Yasmine Gooneratne (also a well-known critic and novelist) and Michael Ondaatje, better-known as a novelist.
www.thepoetryhouse.org /Petryrooms/Indiansub.html   (679 words)

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