Book Reviews Nafisa Hoodbhoy, Aboard the Democracy Train, A Journey through Pakistan’s Last Decade of Democracy,

Abstract

A good number of political writers, who have written on Pakistan, are those who traveled through this country, spent some time here, observed the political events and then penned down their observations. Their’s may not be the works the type of which could have come from trained historians and political scientists, yet their works serve as primary sources on the politics and society of the country as they provide the first hand information on the occurances of the country. V.S. Naipal’s Among the Believers was an impressionistic work. Emma Duncan’s Breaking the Curfew is a good account of Pakistan’s tormenting experience of going through a military regime. More recently, Anatol Lieven has come up with Pakistan A Hard Country, arguing that despite all its failings and the predictions of its doom’s day, Pakistan would survive given a number of factors, including its inherent resilience. The