Shahid Javed Burki is a former Finance Minister of Pakistan and served as Vice President of the World Bank. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: How to Develop the Afghanistan – Pakistan Tribal Belts? Explosions in the Arab (Possibly the Muslim) Streets Breakdown of the “Grand Bargain” and Emerging Political Order in the Developing World
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By Shahid Javed Burki* Abstract More often than not change that makes history happens slowly, mostly unnoticed. Often it is not linear as shown by the unsteady progress Egypt is making towards developing a democratic system. Why these developments occur is a question left to the historians to answer and argue about. Sometimes revolutions bring
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By Shahid Javed Burki* Abstract The spreading, street inspired revolutions in the Middle East in the first quarter of 2011, will profoundly affect the area’s political development, its economic progress and its relations with the West, in particular the United States. Most of the countries that were caught in these revolutions are not likely to
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By Shahid Javed Burki[1] Abstract (The Taliban regime which established control over most of Afghanistan from 1996-2001 sought to restore peace to that troubled country which had degenerated into warlord zones. Their harsh rule, typified by the imposition of their own understanding of Islam, was inward looking. Should the “resurgent Taliban” succeed in establishing themselves
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