Pakistan, Institutional Instability & Underdevelopment State, People and Consciousness (Paperback) BY AKMAL HUSSAIN | fol

“Akmal Hussain places the ‘human’ squarely at the heart of ‘development’ and brings human consciousness into the developmental paradigm.”

-ZAFAR SHAHEED
Former Official of the International Labour Organization: Author. The Labour Movement in Pakistan: Organization and Leadership in Karachi in the 1970s.

“This elegant and wide-ranging study of politics and ideology transcends disciplinary boundaries and helps us to understand a new Pakistan’s history with unusual depth and clarity.”

-PAULA NEWBERG
Former Clinical Professor and Fellow of the Wilson Chair. University of Texas at Austin, Author, Judging the State Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan

“What a gem of an analysis of the instability of, and in, Pakistan’s institutional architecture, and hence the State. A unique study of the interaction(s) between the various organs of the state… Brilliant and most insightful…”

-AITZAZ AHSAN
Honorary Fellow, Downing College Cambridge.

“Akmal Hussain steers the reader expertly through the turbulent political and economic history of Pakistan by charting out the trajectory of institutional instability…A must read.”
-ALIYA HASHMI KHAN
Former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

Publisher: Folio Books
Publishing date: April 2023
ISBN: 978-969-7834-54-9
Binding: Paperback