TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jalal,Ayesha
TI  - The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim homeland and global politics
SN  - 9780674052895 (hbk)
U1  - 954.9104 
PY  - 2014///. ©2014
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts : 
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Civil-military relations
N1  - Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free' --
From minority to nation --
Truncated state, divided nation --
A sprawling military barrack --
Pitfalls of martial rule --
Toward the watershed of 1971 --
The rise and fall of populism --
Martial rule in an Islamic garb --
Democracy restored? --
A geostrategic riddle --
Entangled endgames --
Epilogue: overcoming terror
N2  - In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region
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