ABSTRACT
In addition to securing or guarding the country from outside threats, we see the Pakistan military omnipresent in quintessentially ‘developmental’ arenas such as infrastructure building and social welfare to name but a few. Operationalising its presence in these two sectors – the Fauji Foundation representing welfare foundations, and Frontier Works Organization representing infrastructure building – this book explores the underlying mechanisms and methods through which militaries can use their additional or supplementary competencies to their own advantage. The end goal is twofold. First, to ascertain how the military negotiates the civil-military binaries under the rubric of ‘development’. Second, to establish that when hegemonies are culturally and symbolically enforced – through the effective utilisation of auxiliary capabilities or under the banner of ‘development’– they endure longer.
