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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    212 : Pakistan’s Past, Present and Future – I : To Understand Pakistan’s Present, Study the Past

    Shahid Javed Burki, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

    6 October 2015

    Pakistan's Constitution had been cleansed of the military-crafted changes by the time Mr Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister, for the third time, in 2013. However, the main toolkit for addressing the country's challenges is a proper grasp of its history of crises and crises-management.