A State in Denial by veteran\n journalist B.G. Verghese explores a subject of immense global significance -\n Pakistan, and where it is positioned in relation to India and the world.\n After a brisk overview of the events that have come to define post-Independence\n Pakistan - the battle for Kashmir; the integration of Karat and Hyderabad\n into India; the creation of Bangladesh - Verghese, drawing from rare archival\n material, approaches subjects that have long been contentious - the Indus\n water treaty, Siachen and A.Q. Khan’s dangerous nuclear forays. Even while\n analyzing Pakistan’s present-day plunge into internal dissent, self-made\n jihadi extremism, provincial rivalry and military rule, Verghese offers a\n gentle way out of the nation’s self-made dilemmas - by encouraging Pakistan\n to become more than the Indian ‘other’, and urging it to move away from\n fundamentalism and embrace the syncretic, Sufi-infused Islam it once knew.\n B.G. Verghese’s last book is a powerful reminder that the core issue with\n Pakistan is not Kashmir - rather, it is the lack of a clear identity, the\n absence of a positive ideology, and the reluctance of the nation to fully\n accept its history.
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