Pakistan: A Hard Country (92 page)
Muslims
army officers as
in Britain
conscience of
East Bengalis as
idea of separate state
in India
and Indian revolt
Ismaili
in Kashmir
languages spoken by
as missionaries
nationalist
Ottoman
outnumbered by Hindus in India
radical
Shia and Sunni; and Bhuttos; elites; in FATA; and Hazaras; and MMA; in Multan; Pakistan divide between; Pathans and; in Peshawar; pir families; and PPP; in Punjab; and religious rules; and Seraiki speakers; Shia shrines; Sunni origins; Zia ands; see also Barelvis; militant groups, anti-Shia and US
see also Islam
musth malangs
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)
in NWFP and Balochistan elections
offices
as Pakistan – Afghan Defence Council and Taleban
and TNSM
Muttahida Qaumi Mahaz (MQM)
in coalition government
corruption in
Karachi headquarters
middle-class character
student organization
website
Mysore
mysticism
Nadir Shah
Naeemi, Mufti Sarfraz
Nagaland
Nairobi, Al Qaeda attack on US embassy Najaf, Iraq, Shia shrine of Ali
Namier, Lewis
nang (honour)
Nangrahar
Napier, General Sir Charles
Naqshbandi Sufis
Naqvi, General Tanvir
Nasir Ansari, Amina
Nasirabad district
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Nation newspaper
National Reconciliation Ordinance
nationalism
Baloch
East Bengali
Hindu
left-wing
Muslim
Pakistani
Pathan
secular
Sindhi
Turkish
NATO
Naveed Khan, Malik
Nawaz, Asif
Nawaz, Shuja
Naxalites
nazims (local officials)
NCOs
Nehru, Jawarharlal
Nehru/Gandhi family
neo-colonialism
‘Neo-Taleban’
Nepal
traditional legal codes
New York, Times Square attack
New York Post
New York Times
The News (desktop publication)
News One (TV channel)
Niazis
Nigeria
9/11 (Septemberattacks)
aftermath of
attributed to Bush administration
attributed to Jews/Israel
author’s visits to Pakistan since
compared with deaths in Pakistan
Gilani on
LeT and
Musharraf and
number of deaths
Taleban before and after
see also United States of America
niqab
Nishatabad, Chenab mill
Niven, David
Nizam-e-Adl agreement
Nizami, Amed Jamal
Nkrumah, Kwame
nom (reputation)
North Africa
North Caucasus
North Korea
North West Frontier Province (NWFP) (from 2010 Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) and ANP
army recruitment from
campaign to rename as ‘Pakhtunkhwa’
civil servants in
coalition government
compared with Lahore
and counter-offensive to Taleban
economic development in
‘feudals’ in
funerals of shahids
hatred and fear of India in
and hydroelectric dam project
and Kashmir
as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
lack of knowledge of
militants in
Pakistan Taleban in
and Pakistani Taleban
and partition
and PATA
Pathans in
PML(N) in
police in; elite group
politicians in
population
poverty in
Provincial Assembly
separation from Punjab
shrines
steel-mill
under British rule
and Urdu
water crisis in
women in
Northern Alliance
Northern Ireland
Northumberland, Earl of
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Obama, Barack, administration
O’Brien, Aubrey
O’Bryen, Lt Col James Loughan
oil boom
Okara
Omar, Mullah
Operation Brasstacks
Operation Midnight Jackal
Operation Searchlight
Orangi urban regeneration project
Ottoman Empire
Oxford, Pakistanis in
Pakhtuns see Pathans
Pakistan (earlier West Pakistan)
agriculture
architecture
army, armed forces; and Afghan Taleban; and ANP; authority in; Ayub and; Bhutto and; budget; and Bugtis; counter-offensive against TNSM; damage to prestige of; as family; Frontier Corps; gas fields and mines and; Bushra Gohar on; Hazaras and; Hazaras in; and India’s role in Taleban terrorism; and industry; invasion of Waziristan; obsession with India and Kashmir; and Pakistan Taleban; and police; and politicians; problems of moral; Punjabi-dominated; size of; strength of; in Swat; and US; Welfare Trust; see also Frontier Corps, below atrocities in
attempts at change
border with Afghanistan
bureaucracy
civil service
competition with India
Constituent Assembly
constitution (1973)
and counter-offensive to Taleban
creation of
crime
dam construction
defence
diaspora
as dictatorship
divisions
drug abuse
economy
education
electricity supply
energy and mineral resources
ethnic divisions
executions and torture in
exports
a failed state?
farming
film industry in
floods (summer 2010)
Frontier Constabulary
Frontier Corps
GDP
‘Green Revolution’
health care in
High Command
hospitals
hostility to US
Human Rights Commission
hydroelectric dam project
Indus river, dependence on
industry
inequality rating
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
intelligence services
international trade
Islamization programme
and Islamist extremism
as Janus-faced
Jinnah’s plans for
journalism
jungle
justice system and judicial codes
land reform
law courts
linguistic divisions
links to Afghan Taleban seen as positive literacy rate
local government
media
military governments
Military Intelligence (MI)
modernization
and Mujahidin
music
National Assembly
National Command Authority
National Finance Commission Awards nationalization programmes
nationalism
as ‘negotiated state’
as new state
nuclear programme
origin of name
peasants
police; and army; ‘encounter specialists’
political system
population growth
pornography in
poverty
power structures
predicted disintegration
predicted survival
provincial balance
psychological and psychiatric problems in relationship with India
religions
religious fervour in
resistance to uniting
riverine areas
rivers
roads
as rural society
and separation of Bangladesh
service sector
social inequality rating
state code
Strategic Plans Division
Supreme Court
sweat-shops
tax collection and evasion
technology
textile industry
tribal areas
unemployment
as united (Muslim) state
urbanization
video shops
war with India (1965)
water management
weakness of state
see also democracy (in Pakistan); floods (summer 2010); United States of America, relations with; Urdu, as official language of Pakistan
Pakistan International Airlines
Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML(N)) class feeling in
defectors from
and digital mapping project in Punjab and elections
headquarters
and industry
ISI and
and Islamization
kinship and
and legal institutions
as middle-class party
and military
and MQM
in NWFP
pir families and
and PML(Q)
in Punjab
Punjabi character of
and Sharifs
Shia and Barelvis in
and terrorism
and US
and waderos
website
Zia and
Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid-e-Azam) (PML(Q)) as ‘King’s Party’
National Assembly
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
Abdul Akbar Khan and
after Zia’s death
and ANP
banners
and Bhutto dynasty
class feeling in
creation of 1988 government
in elections
fears of splitting
government ministers in
headquarters
hostility to US
incompetence in government
and ISI
in Islamabad
Jamaat and
and judiciary
and kinship system
and live burials of women
and local chieftains
and massacres (1971)
and media
and military
and MQM
and Mukhtar Mai case
and Musharraf
national finance award
in NWFP
and Pakistan Taleban
Peshawar office
and Peshawar University
and PML(N)
in Punjab
religious appeal
and renaming of NWFP
in Sindh
splits in
strengths
student supporters of
and Sunni-Shia tensions
and Taleban
and TNSM
US chapter
weaknesses
website
and Zardari
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) (Sherpao) Pakistani Petroleum
Pakpattan
Palal tribe
Palestine
Panchayati Raj
panchayats
Panjshir
Parsis
Pashto
Pashtuns see Pathans
pashtunwali (Pathan ethnic code)
Pataudi, General Sher Ali
Pathan areas
and Afghanistan
border with Afghanistan
businessmen in
insurgency in
political culture
sense of crisis in
Taleban in
visiting
see also Pathans
Pathan (language)
Pathans
and Afghanistan
in army
and attacks on shrines
in Balochistan
and Balochs
and Bengalis
British view of
changes in society
character
and Christianity
demolition of enemies’ houses
disdain for
egalitarianism
ethnic pride of
family rivalry among
future role in Afghanistan
historic use of name
and Islamit revolt
and jirgas
and JUI
in Karachi
in Lahore
as landowners
literacy
and Mohajirs
nationalist see nationalism, Pathan numbers of
in Pakistan
physical appearance
and Potwar plateau
in Punjab
and Punjabis
rebellion
and siege of Red Mosque
in Sindh
as soldiers
support for Taleban
in Swat
and Taleban
as term
tribal revolt
tribes, tribalism
under British rule
women
women, position and treatment of
Yusufzai
see also pashtunwali
‘patriarchal’ family
patronage
British
and corruption
cyclical aspect
as drain on state resources
and JUI
in military
and pir families
and PML(N)
in politics
and PPP supporters
see also corruption
Patterson, Anne
peace deals
Pearl, Daniel
Pehlewan, Bohlu
Pennel, Rev. T. L.
Pentecostalism
Persia
see also Iran (formerly Persia)
Persian Gulf
energy resources
Persian language
Pervez Ashraf, Raja
Peshawar
and Afridi
allegedly under siege
Combined Military Hospital
corruption in
degree of support for Pakistani and Afghan Taleban fall to Sikhs
Frontier Constabulary Mess
gardens
Hayatabad; Jamrud Industrial Estate MMA and
and Mujahidin
opposition to terrorism in
and Pakistan Taleban
Pashaggi Road
as Pathan city
Pearl Continental Hotel, attack on police in
PPP office
Provincial Assembly
return of confidence in
St John’s Cathedral
shrine of Pir Rahman Baba
suicide bombings
Sunni-Shia relations in
Tehkal district
University; Area Studies Centre; Islamia College US Consulate in
voters in
XI Corps headquarters
Peshawar Valley
hujras in
Peters, Ralph
pilgrimage
Pindigheb family
pir families (descendants of saints) psychological help from
in Sindh
Pir Pagaro
poetry
police
and human rights abuses
Political Agents
political parties, dynastic system political process, lives of politicians politics
electoral
houses of politicians
and the military
pornography
Potwar (Potohar) plateau
poverty
in Balochistan
in NWFP
in Sindh
‘power-sharing’
Powindah Mullah
Pressler Amendment
priests, European Catholic
princely states