Ghost: Transmemoir
Bose Krishnamachari
Mixed media installation | 480″ x 84″ | 2006
Gallery ArtsIndia

(Hat-tip, the inestimable Brian Lukacher)

Anil Kalhan asks what happened to Pakistan’s Charter of Democracy:

The period of civilian rule in the 1990s was therefore one in which the army was able to “divide and rule” the civilian political leadership to a significant extent. And in this context, the agreement of Sharif and Bhutto to the Charter of Democracy was a significant signal that Pakistan’s most prominent civilian leaders were prepared to change the nature of their own political engagement with the army more fundamentally than when they had been tangling over short-term power in the 1990s. Perhaps recognizing the ways in which their own leadership had fallen short in the past, Bhutto and Sharif pledged in the Charter that they would not “join a military regime or any military sponsored government” or “solicit the support of military to come into power or to dislodge a democratic government.” Rather, they agreed that they would accept “the due role of the opposition” and, whether in opposition or in government, that they would not “undermine each other through extra constitutional ways.”

Also, my colleague Joe Nevins sends me this recent LA Times piece about the daily showdown at Wagah.

Photo from here