Constructing Pakistan - Closing

Pakistan is a nation of over one hundred and sixty million people, and it has, like so many other postcolonial nations, struggled to produce, articulate, and popularise its normative structure. Due to its strategic location, its recent problematic role as a regional US ally in the war against terror, and its national potential as a leading Muslim nuclear power, Pakistan is one of the most important Mulsim nation-states of the twenty-first century. Unfortunately, since the terrorist attacks of 2001, Pakistan has been mostly represented a problem both in the media as well as in the scholarly works produced in the United States. Thus, I hope that my attempt at articulating the formative national history of Pakistan will facilitate a more engaged public debate and academic scholarship on the past, present, and the future of Pakistan.