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Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Dtente? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Pakistans armed forces are only between two-and-a-half to three times smaller than Indias, having been built up at the expense of social welfare. While India has sustained parliamentary democracy through regular elections at several levels -- from village council to Parliament -- Pakistan had known three prolonged spells of military rule before Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power on October 12, 1999, overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif