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WASHINGTON DIARY: The times they are achanging —Dr Manzur Ejaz

WASHINGTON DIARY: The times they are achanging —Dr Manzur Ejaz

What General Kayani and the army do not realise is that the military’s monopoly over the Pakistani state was the product of a set of historical factors that have substantially changed. Now, other institutions of the state are maturing to the level that a new inter-institutional balance has to evolve or the state will wither away

Pakistan’s socio-political system has reached a critical stage where the competition or confrontation between institutions is leading to an inevitable but unexpected change. An overwhelmingly agrarian Pakistani society has evolved into a multi-layered complex body where new urban middle classes have matured enough to play a role. If the dominant institutions of the military and political elites do not rapidly adjust to the changing reality, an unprecedented and disastrous situation can develop.

Whatever way we cut it, the incidents of the last month compelled the military to come to parliament and explain itself to the legislators and the public. Despite the chiding posture of General Shuja Pasha, this was a new development. But then, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani issued a long rebuttal, a public criticism, after the 139th Corps Commander’s Conference. In this comprehensive statement, he reasserted the military’s monopoly over defining the ideology and policy of the state of Pakistan. If one dissects General Kayani’s statement, part of it is the military’s claim to define the country as an ‘Islamic’ state and other parts are operational policies as to how the country is going to be run.

What General Kayani and the army do not realise is that the military’s monopoly over the Pakistani state was the product of a set of historical factors that have substantially changed. Now, other institutions of the state are maturing to the level that a new inter-institutional balance has to evolve or the state will wither away.

Before the partition of India most of the business and professional classes were comprised of largely Hindus and partly Sikhs in areas that are included in Pakistan now. It is an interesting historical fact that conversion to Islam took place among the bulk of the rural peasantry and some ruling families. In the urban areas only artisan and working classes embraced Islam.

Sony has created a thinner and lighter notebook MacBook Air ...

Sony has updated its flagship series of professional notebooks Vaio Z and introduced the first model – Vaio VPCZ21V9E with 13.1-inch display.

The computer has become much thinner and lighter than previous generation systems. Its thickness has decreased by 7.15 mm (from 23.8 to 16.65 mm), weight – 230 grams (from 1.41 to 1.18 kg). Thus, the model turned out smaller and lighter 13-inch MacBook Air, which thickness is 17 mm, weight – 1.32 kg.

To achieve such low rates the Japanese engineers have thought through the circuitry. Its role in the size and weight also play SSD-drive (256 GB) and a carbon fiber chassis.

New Vaio Z is equipped with a screen resolution of 1600 x 900 or 1920 x 1080 pixels, support for Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 3G, stereo speakers and Dolby Home Theater-in webcam with a resolution of 1.3 Megapixels . The laptop has two USB-ports, including a USB 3.0 port with support for Light Peak, as well as high-definition interface HDMI. RAM is 8 GB.

The new computer is deprived of the selected adapter (previously used Nvidia GeForce GT 330M) and in itself can provide only integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000. The main secret is that if you wish, you can get much better graphics performance.

The fact that the Vaio VPCZ21V9E proposed Multimedia Station VGP-PRZ20C Power Media Dock, which, in addition to the accelerator AMD Radeon HD 6650M with 1 GB of memory, put a lot more often. Here is the RGB-out for connection to a monitor, HDMI, USB and optional LAN adapter 1 Gb / sec. Integrated DVD SuperMulti drive lets you play and record CDs and model station VGP-PRZ20A equipped with Blu-ray-drive.

Unit weight is approximately 0.7 kg, overall dimensions – 220×148x16, 65 mm. Connecting to a computer is carried through the USB interface technology Light Peak. When the unit is turned off, the port of a laptop can be used as a simple USB cable for connecting peripheral devices.

Finally, an important feature of the laptop is a 2-core processor Intel Core i7-2620M. Its basic frequency of 2.70 GHz, with the possibility of promotion to 3.40 GHz Technology with Turbo Boost. This is the latest generation of processor, made on the basis of 32-nm topology and runs on standard voltage.

Established lithium-polymer battery provides up to 7 hours of battery life. Coupled with an optional battery pack affixed to the bottom of the laptop, while the increase to 14 hours. Connect the battery can be carried out at the computer is running.

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