A Game of Chicken: Banyan  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8768 (Jan. 2012), page 34.
Topik: Presidents; Politics; International Relations; Economic Crisis; Government

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In recent months, despite coup threats, economic crisis, a heart scare and incessant vilification in the press, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's president, has never appeared in public without one constant companion: a stubborn, face-splitting grin. He seems not to have much to smile about. The coalition led by his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is just over a year away from the end of its five-year term. But you could get long odds in Islamabad for a bet on its getting there. Like any civilian government in Pakistan, it survives only so long as the army allows it to, and the army would like to see the back of it. That does not necessarily mean, however, that a coup is looming. There is more than one way to skin a civilian government. Times have changed since Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the country's first elected leader (and the last to serve a full term in office) was overthrown by a coup in 1977 and later hanged. The pattern set in a more recent phase of democracy, in the 1990s, was to topple governments through legal or constitutional intrigue. Three, including two led by Mr Zardari's late wife, Benazir Bhutto, fell in that way before a fourth tried to get rid of the army chief, Pervez Musharraf, in 1999, leaving the affronted general no option but to retaliate with an old-fashioned coup.

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