Ijaz Khan
Former Professor and Chairman, Department of International Relations, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Address: H. No. 138 A, St. 37, F 10/1, Islamabad
Address: H. No. 138 A, St. 37, F 10/1, Islamabad
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theoretical section outlines the debate surrounding the concepts of nation-state, statenation
and multinational state, and contextualizes the case of Pakistan within it. That is
followed by an analysis of Pakistan’s development as a unitary state, with an identity
based on religion that negates its ethnolinguistic mosaic. The concluding section
discusses briefly the Pakistani federal system, and suggests that its unitary rather than
federal structure furthers negates ethnolinguistic diversity rather than protecting it.