William Dalrymple urges Obama on obligation to Pakistan democracy, people
William Dalrymple, a historian on South Asia, has drawn US President-elect Barack Obama’s attention to obligation he owes to Pakistan’s democracy and its people in breaking with the Bush administration’s policy of conducting unilateral strikes against militant targets on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border.
“It is difficult to see how Obama plans to reach out to the people of Pakistan,” as he has said, “if he ignores their democratically elected leaders and if he continues (the practice) to illegally bomb the FATA tribal territories... which have killed many more civilians than militants, and continue to alienate the people of the region against America and its allies,” Dalrymple states, according to the Post Global forum discourse hosted by The Washington Post Thursday.
The Scottish historian is the writer of the award-winning account ‘The Last Mughal’ which has been acclaimed as a brilliant narrative of the “Fall of a Dynasty : Delhi 1857.”...
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“It is difficult to see how Obama plans to reach out to the people of Pakistan,” as he has said, “if he ignores their democratically elected leaders and if he continues (the practice) to illegally bomb the FATA tribal territories... which have killed many more civilians than militants, and continue to alienate the people of the region against America and its allies,” Dalrymple states, according to the Post Global forum discourse hosted by The Washington Post Thursday.
The Scottish historian is the writer of the award-winning account ‘The Last Mughal’ which has been acclaimed as a brilliant narrative of the “Fall of a Dynasty : Delhi 1857.”...