Dreams of a secular republic: elite alienation in post-zia Pakistan/
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
- 2016
The article emphasizes that substantive social changes have taken place over the past four decades coeval with the erosion of a relatively insular structure of power dominated by the secular Westernised successors to the British. Pakistan is one of the major battlegrounds of the 'war on terror' with Islamists exerting a major influence on both everyday politics and ideological debates .