The Shadow Nation：Strategic Culture of Pakistan's Deep State

Pakistan Military has used the mantle of being the custodian of ‘Nazariya-e-Pakistan’ (idea of Pakistan) as causa principalis to permeate into the societal fabric of Pakistan and impose its strategic culture on Pakistan, the state. While externally it may be revisionist, internally Pakistan Military would prefer to maintain status quo ante. This book is a critique on Pakistan’s military dominance and how the army’s grip on national ideology, politics and society has persisted. Pakistan Military has shaped a revisionist, anti-India posture by manipulating the feudal elite, the political satraps, theological cronies, the judiciary and the bureaucrats through a ‘carrot and stick’ regimen by the Deep State.