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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Pakistan has been in existence for more than six decades but the state has not been able to define its identity till date. Pakistan has been a nation of contradictions; it has shared an ambiguous relationship with Islam, tried to embrace Western notions of modernity, and , at the same time, tried retaining the orthodox Islamic identity, has an overpowering and ambitious army which has ruled the nation for more than 30 years directly, and nearly an equal period with a civilian façade, but has still struggled periodically to go back to the domestic order controlled by the fractured political leadership and has suffered a deep national identity crisis. Lack of identity has encouraged the rise of ethnicity and pluralism with in the Pakistani society. Born as a result the demand of a separate Muslim homeland, it eventually stood as the saviour of Islam and, in the process, the military led state has adopted policies based on religion which have had severe repercussion for the state. Religion has been used in Pakistan for a range of issues from nation-building to strategic security,
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