TY - BOOK AU - AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad TI - Dreams of a secular republic: elite alienation in post-zia Pakistan PY - 2016/// KW - PAKISTAN KW - WAR ON TERROR N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2016.1193214 ER -