ABSTRACT
Pakistan itself has its own political uncertainties to deal with, while being intermittently rocked by civil commotion. Pakistan was to have been a secular nation, modelled on the Western democratic tradition. History, geography and ideology appear to combine to pit Pakistan against its perceived principal regional rival, India. In the case of Pakistan, the socio-political system possesses features of both developed and developing countries that intertwine with complexity, render any single model of analysis difficult and instead calls for a ‘model-mix’, with empiricism as the dominant factor. In Pakistan’s early stages of development, starting from the 1950s and continuing into the late 1960s, the strategy followed in economic development was based on the Harrod Domar model. To appease Pakistan’s powerful security circles, China has been providing military support to Islamabad for years. Indeed, the severance from former East Pakistan also gave Pakistan a geographical contiguity with the region, in some ways rendering Pakistan as much Middle Eastern as South Asian.
