Articles
Kiener, Robert. "Crisis in Pakistan: Can the fragile democracy survive?" CQ Global Researcher Dec. 2008. South Asia experts warn that Pakistan — recently dubbed "the new center of the war against terrorism" — could become the world's first nuclear-armed "failed state." The Muslim country's new president faces a spike in terrorist bombings, rising Islamic fundamentalism, a weakened democracy and a faltering economy. Already, more people have been killed in suicide bombings in Pakistan during the first eight months of 2008 than in Iraq or Afghanistan. And Indian authorities suspect that Islamic terrorists from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir perpetrated last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 173 people. Another challenge for President Asif Ali Zardari and his relatively young nation: growing resentment about recent U.S. military incursions into terrorist-infested Pakistani tribal territories. Although the country has weathered many storms since its founding in 1947, experts wonder if recent developments threaten its survival. As the new administration tries to hold the disparate nation together, a strong military — with a long history of usurping civilian rule — is poised to take over once again. The world watches with growing concern to see if the fragile democracy can survive or if Pakistan — with its nuclear arsenal — will devolve into chaos.
From the CQ Global Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
EBSCOhost
Do a subject or GE Geographic Terms search for Pakistan [over 2000 full text articles], then narrow using a subject term from the left. For instance, choosing 'Terrorism' drops the results down to about 85, 'Taliban' to around 70 articles.
Don't use more than one - if you want to look at several of the subtopics enter the keywords on the second search line with OR between them:
The search
GE Pakistan AND (terror* OR taliban OR qaida) provides over 350 full text articles; if instead you narrowed with all three subject terms you would only find one article!
ProQuest
GEO(pakistan) AND (mumbai or lashkar*) - over 350 full text articles dealing with Pakistan and the attacks in Mumbai, India blamed on the radical group Lashkar-e-Taiba (truncated due to variant spellings).
GEO(pakistan) AND GEO(afghanistan) - over 2000 full text articles
Reference
Country Profile: Pakistan Facts on File World News Digest. Includes many links to articles as well as facts, history.
Long, Roger D. "Pakistan" Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern World. Ed Peter N. Stearns. Oxford UP, 2008.
25 scholarly reference articles on Pakistan in Gale Virtual Reference, including an 18 page article from the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 11th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
"Pakistan: Recent History." Europa World. Regularly updated.
Books - Ebrary
Cohen, Stephen P. Idea of Pakistan. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan : Eye of the Storm. Yale UP, 2003.
Web
United States. Natl. Counterterrorism Center."Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT or LeT; Army of the Righteous)." 2008 Counterterrorism Calendar.
