The Struggle for Pakistan

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Built up as a country for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a turbulent history that has unfurled in the vortex of desperate territorial and worldwide clashes. Plagued by deaths, upsets, ethnic hardship, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the nation has gotten itself again and again battling with strict fanaticism and military dictatorship. Presently, in a testing life story of her local land in the midst of the pains of worldwide change, Ayesha Jalal gives an insider’s appraisal of how this atomic equipped Muslim country developed as it did and clarifies why its issues gauge so vigorously on possibilities for harmony in the district.

Mindful to Pakistan’s outside relations just as its inner elements, Jalal shows how the vexed connection with the United States, outskirt debates with Afghanistan in the west, and the contention with India over Kashmir in the east have paved the way for the schemes of the officers who bought security at the expense of solid law based organizations. Joined with residential ethnic and local competitions, such weights have made an attack mindset that energizes military mastery and aggressor fanaticism.

Since 9/11, the nation has been generally depicted as a rearing ground for Islamic psychological oppression. Surveying the dangers presented by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban as American soldiers pull back from Afghanistan, Jalal fights that the fight for Pakistan’s spirit is a long way from being done. Her authoritative history uncovers how pluralism and vote based system keep on battling for a spot in this Muslim country, where they are so basic to its future.