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With the potentially disruptive issue of the role of Islam in the state temporarily out of the way, the praetorian guard and its mandarin friends sanguinely accepted the constituent assembly’s stance on fundamental rights. As they knew only too well, the proof of the pudding lay in the eating.
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― The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
― The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and inteligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?
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― Catch-22
― Catch-22