PAKISTAN: Laying Down the Law

In Pakistan the constitution is gone, the Parliament dissolved, the country's first elections indefinitely postponed. But not since the days of Founding Father Mohammed Ali Jinnah has Pakistan had so popular a government. "On the day De-fore the revolution last October," said a now jobless politician, "I thought one of the most dangerous things you can do is to break a constitution, even if it is to stop evil. On the day after, I thought: 'Thank God someone had the courage.'" Says beefy, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan, Pakistan's military dictator and president: "We have a few jobs to...

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