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Article: ARTICLE: A dream turned nightmare.
- Article from:
- The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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By: Samson Simon Sharaf November 3 (THE NATION): When Zulfikar Ali Bhutto entrusted Major General Naseerullah Babar to create a student dominated resistance in Afghanistan, he ignored a very important lesson of power politics. Hans Joachim Morgenthau in his book, Politics Amongst Nations, had observed: The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. Was this ignorance or deliberate? Determined to create a new Pakistan, Bhutto was riding a wave of diplomatic successes. It seems he decided to taste the forbidden fruit. Negotiations with India had been successful. The OIC Summit at Lahore ended Pakistans international ...