ABSTRACT
A significant theme that runs through Pakistan’s chequered legal and constitutional history is the politics and sociology of ethnicity and ethnic minorities. Law is not an autonomous entity divorced from the socio-economic and historical background of a people. A legal perspective of ethnic minorities in Pakistan therefore can only be appreciated if the rationale and backdrop against which laws were formulated is understood and analysed. This book has attempted to analyse laws affecting indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Pakistan by placing the debate in its logical perspective of historical events, and political and socioeconomic compulsions of various governments and key actors.
