The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan.

This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large par...

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Main Author: Haider, Ziad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Hoover Institution Press, 2010
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 584.
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Table of Contents:
  • The idea of Pakistan
  • Fortifying a nation
  • Ideology and integrity
  • Islamic socialism
  • The Islamization of Pakistan
  • Ideologically adrift
  • Enlightened moderation
  • Talibanization
  • Yeh hum hameen (this is not us)
  • A new narrative.