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But London's liberal Guardian called the coup "a blow to democracy, a blow to Pakistan's image abroad, and a blow to those who hope for peace in the subcontinent."
The controversy began in 1947, when Great Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent, creating two states--India (predominantly Hindu) and Pakistan (predominantly Muslim)--out of the subcontinent's hundreds of territories.
"It appeared as if the whole Indian subcontinent was surrounded by a mountain of pollution," he said.
In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
High transmission (defined below) also occurs in other areas of rural poverty in the tropics, including southern China [5], the Indian subcontinent [6], and the Americas [7].