Pakistan: A Nation In The Making

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Avalon Publishing, Oct 2, 1986 - History - 226 pages

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A Nation Is Born
9
The Nations Politics
37
The Nations Economic Development
105
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Pakistan: A Nation In The Making
Shahid Javed Burki
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Pakistan: A Nation in the Making
Shahid Javed Burki
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accepted administration Afghanistan agricultural sector areas army Awami Ayub Khan Baluchistan Bangladesh began Bengal British India campaign capital cities civilian constitution country's cultural decade Delhi democracy developing countries domestic early economic elections established export federal Five-Year Plan foodgrains foreign Hindus important increase independence Indian Muslim Indus industrial Islamabad Islamic Islamicization Karachi Kashmir Khan's Lahore large number leaders leadership Liaqat literacy majority martial law Middle East middle-income migration military Mohammad Ali Jinnah movement Mughul muhajirs Muslim community Muslim League National Assembly Northwest Frontier Province output Pakistan People's party Pakistan's political Pathan People's party percent per annum period political parties politicians population poverty president prime minister problem produced Punjab rate of growth Rawalpindi reasons refugees religious remained result role rural sixth plan South Asia structure United urban West Pakistan World Bank Yahya Khan Zia-ul-Haq Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

About the author (1986)

Shahid Javed Burki was educated at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and at Harvard University as a Mason Fellow. Burki’s career at the World Bank began in 1974 with appointment as senior economist of the Policy Planning and Program Review Department. In 1982 he was appointed director of the International Relations Department, and later served as director of the China Department. He then began a two-year stint as Finance and Planning Minister of the Pakistani government. Burki was a also member of the care-taker government that took office following the dismissal of Ms. Bhutto; he was in charge of the portfolios of finance, planning and economic affairs. Mr. Burki has since re-joined the World Bank as vice-president of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office.Burki has written extensively on the political economy of both China and Pakistan.

Bibliographic information

TitlePakistan: A Nation In The Making
Profiles / Nations of contemporary Asia
Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean
Westview profiles
Westview profiles: Nations of contemporary Asia
AuthorShahid Javed Burki
PublisherAvalon Publishing, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 3, 2008
ISBN0865313539, 9780865313538
Length226 pages
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History / Asia / General
History / Asia / South / General
Political Science / World / Asian
  
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