Pakistan: The Barren Years : The Viewpoint Editorials & Columns of Mazhar Ali Khan 1975-1992: The Barren Years - The "Viewpoint" Editorials and Columns of Mazhar Ali Khan, 1975-92 - Hardcover

Khan, Mazhar Ali; Khan, Ali Mazhar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195790049 ISBN 13: 9780195790047

Verlag: OUP Pakistan, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The independent weekly Viewpoint was launched on Pakistan's Independence Day in 1975, with the intention of filling a void in the English-language press. The advent of the country's third martial law less than two years later, thrust upon it an unexpected role. With much of the remainder of the media either collaborating with the military rulers or coerced into submission, Viewpoint evolved into a focus for pro-democracy dissent - and, amazingly, succeeded in conveying rational opinions even during the phase of rigorous press censorship. The authorities were considerably less subtle in making clear their displeasure, and at one point virtually the entire senior staff found themselves behind bars, with the inhospitable environs of Lahore's Central Jail serving as an unusual setting for the editorial conferences that Mazhar Ali Khan occasionally was able to convene. His reasoned editorials and relatively more adventurous 'Between the Lines' columns were Viewpoint's bedrock, and an extensive selection from them is offered in this volume. They will provide scholars, students and historians with an invaluable contemporary commentary on a period of history that continues to determine the course of Pakistan's journey towards the next century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Pakistan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195790049
• ISBN 13: 9780195790047
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 757
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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