Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

NOTES

*Indeed, perhaps more than just words: on July 9, 2011, the US announced it was holding back $800 million of military aid for Pakistan.

*Lieven is careful to point out that his analysis refers only to Pakistan as it has been configured for the past forty years, a territory with “more of a natural unity… [and] a degree of common history and ethnic intertwining stretching back long before British rule,” and not to what he terms 1947–1971’s “freak of history… [with] its two ethnically and culturally very different wings separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India,” a situation from which Bangladesh should have been given a “civilized divorce” but which instead “ended in horrible bloodshed.”