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Its intended headteacher is an army captain, Affan Burki, and it may be housed on surplus army land, such as a "disused TA territorial army drill hall".
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It's time for the U.S. to truly begin anew, as former Pakistani finance minister Shahid Javed Burki put it, "...in resetting the button, President Obama needs to move forward from rhetoric to real politics."
Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring Michael Hughes 2011
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It's time for the U.S. to truly begin anew, as former Pakistani finance minister Shahid Javed Burki put it, "...in resetting the button, President Obama needs to move forward from rhetoric to real politics."
Michael Hughes: US on Wrong Side of History in Arab Spring Michael Hughes 2011
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Burkard makes the case for the school in a report co-authored with Captain Burki.
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Danial Burki, a commenter on the above post recalls what the icon meant for them:
Global Voices in English » South Asia: The World Is Poorer Without MJ 2009
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According to Burki: "Economic deprivation is a major reason for growing extremism in the Muslim world, and Pakistan is central to the problem of Islamic extremism, and Pakistan does not have resources of its own to get the country's economy moving in the right direction."
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Burki, her faculty page notes, is an academic fellow for the neocon-friendly Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Evan Derkacz: Swiftboating Obama: Renowned Muslim Scholar Couldn't Publish Apostasy Response 2008
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Burki quotes from one of Bhutto's speeches made a year before his downfall:
The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto Buruma, Ian 1989
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Burki also mentions the fact that in 1962 Bhutto wrote a long memorandum to Ayub outlining his idea for a one-party state in which the roles of the judiciary and the legislative branches of government were to be completely subservient to the all-powerful central authority.
The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto Buruma, Ian 1989
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In fact, according to Burki, as well as many others, the rules had already been changed long before Bhutto made that speech in 1976.
The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto Buruma, Ian 1989
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