Imagining Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Pakistan write by Rasul Bakhsh Rais. This book was released on 2017-08-30. Imagining Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagining Pakistan argues that the creation of Pakistan is a result of Muslim modernism in the Subcontinent, as it defined the struggle for identity, nationalism, and empowerment of Muslim communities. This modernist movement represented the ideals of inclusivity, equal rights, a liberal constitutional framework, and a shared sense of political community among diverse ethnic and regional groups. However, while this modernity was the ideal of Pakistan’s founders, it faced resistance from Islamists obsessed with recovering a past legacy of lost Muslim glory. A major threat to political modernism also came from the military that wanted to create a strong and secure Pakistan through ‘controlled’ democracy. Multiple interventions by the military and deviations from the foundational republican ideas left Pakistan in the rough sea of power struggles, causing institutional decay and creating space for the rise of radical Islam. Imagining Pakistan analyzes the institutional imbalance between the military and the civilian groups, the idea of the security state, and the Islamist social forces and movements that have been engaged in the politics of Islamic revival. It argues that Pakistan’s stability, security and progress will depend on pursuing the path of political modernity. Although the restoration of parliamentary democracy and the resilience of the Pakistani society are hopeful signs, resolving the critical issues that Pakistan faces today will require consolidation of democracy, better leadership, and a moderate and modernist vision of both, the state and the society.
Imagining Pakistan
Imagining Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Pakistan write by Rasul Bakhsh Rais. This book was released on 2017. Imagining Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistan's creation, analyzes the society's drift away from its founding philosophy, and assesses optimistic indications of its revival.
Reimagining Pakistan
Reimagining Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reimagining Pakistan write by Husain Haqqani. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Reimagining Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a 'poorly imagined country'. Indeed, Pakistan has meant different things to different people since its birth seventy years ago. Armed with nuclear weapons and dominated by the military and militants, it is variously described around the world as 'dangerous', 'unstable', 'a terrorist incubator' and 'the land of the intolerant'. Much of Pakistan's dysfunction is attributable to an ideology tied to religion and to hostility with the country out of which it was carved out -- India. But 95 per cent of Pakistan's 210 million people were born after Partition, as Pakistanis, and cannot easily give up on their home. In his new book, Husain Haqqani, one of the most important commentators on Pakistan in the world today, calls for a bold re-conceptualization of the country. Reimagining Pakistan offers a candid discussion of Pakistan's origins and its current failings, with suggestions for reconsidering its ideology, and identifies a national purpose greater than the rivalry with India.
Urban Pakistan
Urban Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Pakistan write by Khalid W. Bajwa. This book was released on 2013-09. Urban Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Pakistan provides an essential resource for the fields of urban studies, sociology, anthropology, history, analysis, design, planning, management and policy. It synthesises important but dispersed writings and their associated bibliographies, and identifies gaps that are patched by new works.
Delusional States
Delusional States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Delusional States write by Nosheen Ali. This book was released on 2019-09-19. Delusional States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.
