The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan 1947-2008

This book attempts to explain Pakistan’s crisis of governance in historical and philosophical terms. It argues that South Asia’s indigenous orientation towards the exercise of power has reasserted itself and produced a regression in the behaviour of the ruling elite. This has meant that in the sixty years of independence from British rule the behaviour of the state apparatus and political class has become more arbitrary, proprietorial and delusional resulting deterioration in the intellectual and moral quality of the state apparatus is a mortal threat to Pakistan.