num_pages: 234
description: 'End of the Past' is a documentation of how consequences of various ideological experiments over the last many decades in Pakistan seeped into the soul of the country, insulating future generations from the world, causing them to experience the worst kind of identity crisis.Paracha's observations and pithy prose weaving in personal stories stems from growing up as a son of a journalist who eventually found a voice of his own as one of Pakistan's leading cultural critics and satirists. He chronologically maps how Pakistan's spiritual soul has been trampled upon in its quest to gain acceptance as an 'ideological state'.'End of the Past' is written not so much as a nostalgic memoir as an analysis in the form of a narrative and a means of explaining the enigma that is Pakistan.Paracha looks at Pakistan's political, sporting and cultural pasts, hoping that future generations will learn from them and chart a brand new beginning for a country that he loves passionately. He pleads for a decisive end of the past so that a new and less tumultuous future can be envisioned and built.
language: English
title: End of the Past
publisher: Vanguard Books