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Aug 3, 2009 · Articles. Authoritarianism in Pakistan. The historical roots of dysfunctional politics. Monday, August 3, 2009 18 min read By: Zoltan Barany. P ractically from the moment of its creation in 1947, Pakistan has been plagued by ethnic tensions, mismanagement, and corruption.
Abstract. Pakistan has remained under both de facto and de jure authoritarian rule for the most part of its existence. It has led to a weakening of institutions, including the media, which is harmful from the perspective of the country’s evolution as a true democracy.
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- Introduction
- Pakistan’s Dominion Constitution
- The Pakistani Courtroom as A Cold War Theater
- Conclusions
Pakistan’s long, troubled history of constitutional instability and praetorian rule arcs back to the country’s colonial antecedents and the circumstances of its creation as a postcolonial nation state. A substantial amount of scholarship has analyzed Pakistan’s modern developments in light of the colonial legacies, domestic political process, and i...
Pakistan gained independence on August 14, 1947, as an Independent Dominion. Thus, the Government of India Act 1935 as amended by the India Independence Act 1947 became the Dominion Constitution of independent Pakistan. Chief Justice Muhammad Munir in the opening of his opinion in Special Reference Idescribed Pakistan’s New Dominion constitutional ...
The growing tensions between Governor General Ghulam Mohammad and the Constituent Assembly culminated in the governor-general’s dissolution of the Assembly on October 24, 1954. The response of the Assembly President Tamizuddin Khan was swift and on November 8 he filed a petition in the Chief Court of Sindh claiming that the governor’s dissolution w...
This article has examined the procedural and substantive configuration and legacy of New Dominion constitutionalism in Pakistan through the prism of the constitutional praxis under the Dominion Constitution and the litigation over the dissolution of the first Constituent Assembly. It is argued that the New Dominion constitutional structures provide...
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Nov 2, 2021 · In conclusion, the civil society in Pakistan can take some relief in the fact that notwithstanding constant political engineering from the establishment, the enduring regime remains competitively authoritarian rather than a full-fledged electoral autocracy as seen in contemporary Bangladesh.
A cursory glance at various Congress committee reports between 1948-1954 clearly defies any semblance of US innocence in supporting authoritarian regimes in Pakistan. The US held up Pakistan as a model of economic growth, the irony being that this growth never percolated down and led Mehboob-ul-Haq to propound his famous 'twenty four families ...
Jan 24, 2013 · This essay will argue that all the extant accounts are partial and incomplete. It will contend that the roots of Pakistan's propensity towards authoritarianism must be sought in the ideology, organisation and mobilisation strategy of the movement for the creation of Pakistan.
natural aftermath of the populist uprising against the authoritarian regime in Pakistan, resulting eventually in a general election where the Bengali nationalist, democratic, secular and socialist mandate won with a clean majority (East Pakistan having the majority seats in the Parliament).
