00804pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245002800060260000900088300001600097362001000113520043400123650003900557650002800596773003400624180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aZaidi, S. Akbar  aPolitics and government  c2002  ap.4539-540.  a2 Nov  aPolitical developments in Pakistan since 1999 have seen growing moves at power centralisation, accompanied by a curtailment of constitutional directives and other institutions of democratic governance.  With western powers paying mere lip-service to universal civilisational principle, it is the politics of opportunism that now forms the new guiding principle much as it had during military regimes in another era. - Reproduced.  aPakistan - Politics and government  aPolitics and government  aEconomic and Political Weekly