ABSTRACT
The relational forms of belonging alluded to by the focus group participants do not imply a rejection of democracy – at most, they demonstrate a vague indifference to the symbols and rituals of liberal democracy. A radically ordinary democracy requires a temporality that is a "complicated ever-changing pulse" rather than a "flow". It is by understanding the function of narratives about democracy that we are able to discern the logic of the democracy promotion that is constantly re-inscribed in temporal modes of othering. However, by providing electoral institutions in colonial times and by supporting development and Democracy Promotion ever since decolonisation, Britain has been attempting to aid Pakistan to make its entrance into the same history that Britain has been through. Moreover, the only legitimate that can be envisioned for Pakistan is underwritten by a notion that its trajectory needs to mirror the past of countries like Britain.
