Pakistan at Seventy-Five

Andrea Fleschenberg, Associate Professor, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany. Sarah Holz, Interim Assistant Professor, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany. Arslan Waheed, Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Nation-building in Pakistan: An Outline of Narratives and Academic Discussions - Sarah HolzDevelopment Discourses and Urban Poor: A Case Study of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Katchi Abadis of Islamabad - Arslan Waheed English: An Advantage or a Barrier? Reproduction of Discourses of Inequality through Education - Aftab Nasir ‘Afghan, Pakistani, or Both?’ How Afghan Migrants Are Reshaping Identity in Pakistan and the Diaspora - Sanaa Alimia Exploring Identity through Episodic Interviews: Conceptions, Perceptions and Negotiations among Students of Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad - Wajeeha Tahir Contestation, Cooperation and Consensus: The Council of Islamic Ideology as a Platform for Consensus Building? - Sarah Holz Ideology and Identity: Pakistan’s Ideological Engineering and Baloch Nationalism - Salman Rafi Sheikh Experiencing Control of a Post-Colonial Garrison State: An Appraisal of Nation Building and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan - Sohaib Bodla Conclusion.Reflecting Critical Knowledge Production and Social Sciences within an (Inter-) National, Decentred Research Cooperation on ‘Ideas, Issues and Questions of Nation-building in Pakistan’ - Andrea FleschenbergThe Editors and ContributorsIndex

‘This is a fascinating and brilliant collection of essays decentring knowledge production of the nation and state building in Pakistan. Illustrating a multi-level, multilayer matrix of knowledge production opening a multiplicity of voices and transversal and intersecting identities that are rarely heard in Pakistan. This is even more remarkable given the difficult research terrain that Pakistani social sciences finds itself in.’ Yunas Samad, Professor South Asian Studies / Director Political Science LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan, Emeritus Professor University of Bradford, UK