The challenges to Pakistan's domestic security From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Spring 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Pakistan is a country of heterogeneous peoples and culture. Its society is feudal and tribal. Its economy is scattered and its political institutions are weak, fragile and unstable. It is divided on ethnic, cultural, racial and religious lines. Ethnic and sectarian violence h as polluted the society and there is an overall atmosphere of acute political polarization. The federal structure has failed to achieve a national identity or produce a viable political order in which the people of all provinces may live together as equal partners. In fact, an apparently "unbridgeable" ...

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