Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Fascist tendencies in India and Pakistan
21 January, 1997
Mumbai’s premier Urdu newspaper, Inquilab has published an article by a Pakistani Columnist, detailing the Trotesky treatise ‘Fascism and how to fight it”. The writer warns that following the discredit of all nominally democratic parties in Pakistan including PPP of Benazir Bhutto and Muslim League (N) of Nawaz Sharif, there are chances that public will turn to religio-fascist Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan or ethno-fascist Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) which is bound to result in serious excesses in the name of religion or ethnicity or both. He asserts same trends in India and the eventuality of BJP coming to power, if the democratic forces do not spruce up to face the challenge.
In India, J.N. Dixit, too has cautioned about the virtual institutionalisation of miliatry rule in Pakistan, in the shape of National Defence Council and the dire need for India to strenghthen its own democratic institutuions.
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Mumbai’s premier Urdu newspaper, Inquilab has published an article by a Pakistani Columnist, detailing the Trotesky treatise ‘Fascism and how to fight it”. The writer warns that following the discredit of all nominally democratic parties in Pakistan including PPP of Benazir Bhutto and Muslim League (N) of Nawaz Sharif, there are chances that public will turn to religio-fascist Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan or ethno-fascist Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) which is bound to result in serious excesses in the name of religion or ethnicity or both. He asserts same trends in India and the eventuality of BJP coming to power, if the democratic forces do not spruce up to face the challenge.
In India, J.N. Dixit, too has cautioned about the virtual institutionalisation of miliatry rule in Pakistan, in the shape of National Defence Council and the dire need for India to strenghthen its own democratic institutuions.
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