Book review: Pakistan at the helm
In this book, Tilak Devashar has written about all the rulers of Pakistan, both Military and Civilian. Starting from Jinnah, Tilak gives critical account of all the rulers, who one way or another have ruled Pakistan as autocrats. Tilak writes anecdotal history of our rulers who shaped destiny of Pakistan, both domestically and internationally. In doing so, he also gives an insight about the working of Corridor of powers, the civil-military relationship, the petty politics and absurd rationales given to public in Election campaigns. “The entire empire was the personal estate of the ruler; the bureaucracy functioned at his whims and fancies.” Thus, “instead of the rule of law there was the law of the ruler; all power and authority flowed from the ruler — political, military, administrative and judiciary “ It gives us an hint, that why we have struggled both financially and diplomatically since our inception. From the outset, this may seem a rhetoric of another...