The Pakistani Autumn

Byline: Dr Tariq Rahman The Arab Spring is said to be coming to an end, not with a bang but with a whimper, and some would like to think after the recriminations of October 28 that the Pakistani Autumn is about to begin. But both perceptions could be wrong. First, the Arab uprising has brought about changes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya but is still continuing in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Nobody can predict how it will end there - at the moment the movement in Bahrain has been suppressed but that in Yemen and Syria refuses to be suppressed even by force.