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Pakistan’s Ethnic Tensions National and Regional Security Implications
Acknowledgements vi
Ethnic Map of Pakistan viii
Chronology ix
Introduction 1
1 The Nature of Pakistani State and the Place of Smaller Nationalities in It: Sindh as the Case Study of Internal Colonialism 28
2 Balochistan: Another Case of Internal Colonialism in Pakistan 96
3 Instability in Afghanistan and Its Impact for Pakistan 113
4 The Probable Disintegration of Pakistan and Its Implications on its Provinces in a New Power Configuration 143
5 The Implications of the Probable Disintegration of Pakistan for the Security of South and South-West Asia 166
6 Conclusion 186
Bibliography 207
Index 219
Biography
Mehtab Ali Shah is a former Professor of International Relations, at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sindh. He did his master’s degrees from the Universities of Sindh and Warwick. He earned a PhD from the University of London. He was awarded a South Asian Visiting Research Fellowship and the Smuts Research Visiting fellowships from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, respectively.
Theory of International Relations, Ethnic Studies, Geopolitics and South Asian Politics are his fields of interests. He is the author of two books and several articles published in England. He intends to spend his life working on ethnicity and India–Pakistan harmony.
