an intriguing addition to the literature on the politics of identity in Pakistan and can be of significant importance to anybody interested to understand the failure of nation-building in the country
Dr Rasul Bakhsh Rais is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS, Lahore. He is author of Imagining Pakistan: Modernism, State and the Politics of Islamic Revival (Lexington Books, 2017), Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan (Lexington Books and Oxford University Press, 2008), War Without Winners: Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition After the Cold War (Oxford University
Press, 1996), and Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives (Croom Helm, 1986). He is the editor of State, Society, and Democratic Change in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 1997), and co-editor with Charles H. Kennedy of Pakistan 1995 (Westview Press,
1996).