The Virginia Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2003
Pakistan is perhaps the most notorious political enigma in the second half of the 20th century. It was conceived as a nation-state for a minority community of 100 million Muslims of British India who felt threatened by the political ambitions of the majority Hindu community of nearly 300 million. Pakistan embarked upon the task of nation building when it was established in 1947, at that time comprising two parts divided by 1000 miles of Indian territory. It was a daunting task to build a nation-state whose peoples had only one uniting factor-their abiding faith in Islam. Other than that, ther...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'Pakistan: A Political Enigma'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
Subscribers: HighBeam content is only available to HighBeam subscribers. Click the link above for more information.
