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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue which include the tribal conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), neopatriomoniliasm, and political development in Pakistan.

This article examines the recent shifts in the ideological messaging of Karachi's MuttahidaQaumi Movement. Faced with external challenges, theMQMhas adapted by using the rhetoric of the "global war on terror" to gain advantage over its political opponents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tensions with India and a fraught civil-military imbalance were the dominant storylines in Pakistan in 2016. These crises overshadowed promising developments in the areas of counterterrorism, the economy, and the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A year after assuming power, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government faced a political crisis fomented by the pro-military opposition leader Imran Khan, who mobilized his supporters to protest alleged electoral rigging in the 2013 poll. Khan had to call off the protests after the Pakistani Taliban's grisly terrorist attack on an army-run school in retaliation for the army's offensive against them in North Waziristan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During 2004, Pakistan's civilianizing military regime continued its attempts to balance two seemingly irreconcilable goals: to democratize and stabilize Pakistan's deeply divided political system and to maintain official support, despite nearly unanimous domestic opposition, for U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. This delicate balancing act was further complicated by the A. Q. Khan nuclear weapons affair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is the responsibility of governments to provide food security for their citizens. The government of Pakistan has historically supplied food to its people at reasonable prices through a system of subsidies. However, structural adjustment programs, such as reducing the budget deficit, have resulted in the removal of subsidies on wheat and agricultural inputs. The end result has been an increase in poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article surveys three key areas. The first is the political deadlock over the Legal Framework Order. The second is international uncertainties, including Pakistan's uneasy peace process with India. Third, the article examines Pakistan's continuing economic uncertainties, despite the post-9/11 improvement in the external trading account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summarizes the year 2000 issues and events in Pakistan after the military coup d'etat on October 12, 1999. Reason for military coup; Economic condition of the country; Information on the global and regional responses to the coup.

Discusses the issues concerning the political crisis in Pakistan as of September 1999. Growth in political divisions; Discussion on civilian institutions and military control; Immediate and long-term measures required by the Pakistan government; Role of the international community.

Describes the political and economic situation in Pakistan in 1998. Failure of Prime Minister Nawaz Shari measures for socio-economic development; Effect of government mismanagement on civilian-military relations; Effect of the inability of the government to stop corruption and tax evasion on the economy; Adoption of strategies to avoid foreign debt repayment default.

Focuses on political issues in Pakistan in 1997. Victory of Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader Nawaz Sharif; Factors that contributed to the victory of the PML; Details on the political condition of the country.

Presents Pakistan's problems of governance and the drift's exposure on the part of the leadership causing widespread disillusionments and fueling fissiparous tendencies. Three major issues that confronted Pakistan in the 1990s; Pakistan's political history as battle between authoritarianism and constitutionalism; Secular modernist M.A. Jinnah's views on Muslim nationalism.

Profiles Benazir Bhutto as a popular yet a controversial Pakistan political leader from 1986-1996. Factors that contributed to Bhutto's emergence as a political leader; Strategies and policies devised by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government; Bhutto's performance as prime minister in two different periods.

Discusses Pakistan's weaknesses in democracy, civic culture and civil society. Factors for Pakistan's undermined responsible and responsive government; Importance of civil society to the bases of democratic politics; Pakistan's building blocks for a broad political culture.

Focuses on the continuing political problems in Pakistan. Domestic political strife during Benazir Bhutto's administration; Description of economic recession by economists; International terrorism; Rumors on political change; Role of the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP); Military involvement in political administrative change.

Speculates whether democracy can be sustained in light of the massive economic, social and political difficulties that Pakistan faces. Whether a systematic relationship exist between regime types and development in Pakistan; Factors limiting leaders' choices of economic and political policies.

Focuses on politics in Pakistan. Male and female differences in voting behavior; Cultural issues; Postal ballot results; Class and regional differences in voting behavior; Political factions.

Provides an overview on Pakistan's politics in 1994. Mehran Bank scandal; Confrontational politics; Civil disturbances; Economic condition; Foreign policy.

Discusses the political developments in Pakistan in the 1990s. Comparison of the Bhutto and Sharif governments in different operational contexts; Presidential factor in Pakistani politics; Reinstatement and the promise of democracy; Effects of the constitutional war and the second dissolution; Benazir Bhutto's second term and the Eight Amendment.

Outlines political events in Pakistan in 1993. Power struggle between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan; Supreme Court decision on National Assembly dissolution; Appointment of Moeen Qureshi as caretaker prime minister; Decline in economic growth rate; Analysis of foreign policy in post-Cold War era.

Discusses political developments in Pakistan under different leaders. The l993 elections, results and implications; Presidential elections in November 1993 as an initial test of new political atmosphere created by the nationwide polls for the national and provincial assemblies; Political parties in opposition; Results of the presidential polls; Leghari's victory attributed to the environment of reconciliation.

Discusses the plight of democracy and how it has continued to subsist despite the confusing state matters in Pakistan in 1992. Effects of the political situation on the economy; Foreign policy and current relations with neighboring states.

Questions whether or not Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will succeed where his predecessors, Mohammad Khan Junejo and Benazir Bhutto, failed. The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), a coalitional arrangement among an alliance of parties; The Eighth Constitutional Amendment; Dyarchy in operation; The 1935 India Act; Parliamentary rule under Nawaz Sharif; The four leading actors on the political stage of Pakistan in 1992.

Explicates the evident decay of Pakistan's political institutions since 1988 by identifying those variables that have controlled the development of democracy in that country that far. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP); The advent of democracy, 1988-89; Organizational weaknesses; The fall of the PPP government; Conclusion.

The article reports on the position of Pakistan in the regional and global power environment. It states that Southwest Asia is an essential strategic region that has figured in the foreign and security policies of Pakistan. This fact is apparent in this country's participation in the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) alliance system and its close relationship with Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States. It also mentions that Pakistan remained neutral in conflicts involving Arab and Islamic states until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. However, its decision to send armed forces against Iraq ultimately altered Pakistan's contention on neutrality.

The article discusses the official ouster of Benazir Bhutto, prime minister of Pakistan and the first elected woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state. According to the article, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly and provincial administrations for reasons such as Bhutto's inability to govern over her jurisdiction and her loss of control over the law and order. President Khan stressed further that the country needed a new leader in the person of Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi to take over until the new elections transpire, as mentioned in the article. Furthermore, it is stated that the Lahore High Court ruled that Benazir's government had failed in legislative aspects as well.

The article discusses the political and economic condition of Pakistan in 1989. During this time, Pakistan experienced a time in which no progress can be made in areas such as political, economic and social. These continuing difficulties affected the national mood for renewal and increased confidence which had been spurred by the sudden death of Zia ul-Haq. Ul-Haq's death gave rise to a civilian government in which Benazir Bhutto had been elected prime minister. Bhutto, being the first woman to head the government, had brought youth and vitality and was more a picture of Pakistan's urban, professional and artistic intelligentsia.