Nationalism In Pakistan Essay

LITERATURE REVIEW:

Siddiqi (2012) in his book The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi, and Mohajir Ethnic Movements worked upon Ethnicity and Nationalism in Pakistan. He provides the historical background of how the Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir ethnic issues in Pakistan took form and inspects the correlation between the state of Pakistan and government, and also different ethnic groups and protests. He argues that the Pakistani state mostly focuses upon the benefits and well-being of the prevailing Punjabi majority. He accurately draws the division between the state and government. According to him, politicians obvious to the government, the army and bureaucracy reveal the state and how both are essential for rising of ethnic conflicts. While talking about Baloch nationalism, he highlights the behavior towards the Balochi 's in

When Pakistan appeared on the world map as an autonomous and sovereign state, it was regarded as a distinctive country for the reason that it has diverse cultural, religious and geological distinctiveness. But, Pakistan turned out to be the first post-colonial state to have fragmented on the source of ethnic nationalism. As Muslims comprise an irresistible majority of the population of Pakistan, consequently, Islam cannot be in jeopardy or is in menace, whereas, Pakistan 's endurance is at risk because of massive internal and external fear. As a result, what is necessary in order to save Pakistan from more insecurity and decomposition of its sovereignty is the endorsement and encouragement of Pakistani nationalism by having focal point on three chief things. First are rights of land, people, capital and culture of the nation. Second is textbooks at school level while third is restructuring the country 's political culture by introducing