By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2014. GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) is all set to introduce a non-political interim government to ensure free and fair elections are held next year. Speaking in Darel Valley, G-B Interim Chief Minister Sher Jehan Mir said on Friday that cabinet members would be free of political affiliations. He added they would be selected once the amended governance order is made available to him. One of…
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( The writer, a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, is the author, most recently, of “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.”) In 1989, Chinese cities were rocked by huge protests, most notably the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while in Europe, the Berlin Wall fell and talk of a global Marxist-Leninist extinction began. Many observers, both in China and abroad, assumed that the Chinese Communist Party was on its…