num_pages: 217
description: Despite weeks of negotiation with the leaders of the Congress Party and the Muslim League the British Cabinet Mission failed in its efforts to maintain a united India. As a result in 1947 the Asian subcontinent was partitioned into a Muslim-majority but geographically divided West and East Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India.Of the nations created after World War II Pakistan is one of only two founded on a religious Islam. But religious cohesion did not mitigate the monumental problems that confronted Pakistan's leadership as it strove to establish the basic economic political and social institutions needed to govern a geographically divided nation.After forty-six years of independence Pakistan faces the twenty-first century with great potential yet it must surmount tremendous barriers in order to attain its ambitious goals. This book considers the range of social political and economic problems facing Pakistan today. The contributors analyze the country's attempts to control explosive population growth ease ethnic confrontations and cope with a flood of Afghan refugees as well as to deal with the demands for education women's rights economic growth and greater democracy.
language: English
title: Contemporary Problems Of Pakistan
publisher: Westview Press