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The Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy The Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy series seeks to trigger and attract new thinking in global political economy, with particular reference to the prospects of emerging markets and developing countries. Written by renowned scholars from different parts of the world, books in this series provide historical, analytical and empirical perspectives on national economic strategies and processes, the implications of global and regional economic integration, the changing nature of the development project, and the diverse global-to-local forces that drive change. Scholars featured in the series extend earlier economic insights to provide fresh interpretations that allow new understandings of contemporary economic processes. Series Editors Kevin Gallagher – Boston University, USA Jayati Ghosh – Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Editorial Board Stephanie Blankenburg – School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK Ha-Joon Chang – University of Cambridge, UK Wan-Wen Chu – RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Léonce Ndikumana – University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA Alica Puyana Mutis – Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO-México), Mexico Matías Vernengo – Banco Central de la República Argentina, Argentina Robert Wade – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK Yu Yongding – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China The Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab An Eroding Social Consensus Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar with Sohaib Bodla Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com This edition first published in UK and USA 2014 by ANTHEM PRESS 75–76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave #116, New York, NY 10016, USA Copyright © 2014 Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Sohaib Bodla The moral right of the authors has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested. ISBN-13: 978 1 78308 289 6 (Hbk) ISBN-10: 1 78308 289 5 (Hbk) Cover image: Alexander Mak/Shutterstock.com and Iryna Rasko/Shutterstock.com This title is also available as an ebook. Dedicated to Eqbal Ahmad, inspiring activist and scholar CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Chapter One The Military and Economic Development in Pakistan 1 Chapter Two Punjab’s State–Society Consensus on the Military’s Dominance and Economic Role 23 Chapter Three Research Design, Method, Institutional Issues and Scope of the Military’s Land Acquisitions 43 Chapter Four The Military’s Agrarian Land Acquisitions: High Handedness and Social Resentment 65 Chapter Five From Social Resentment to Social Resistance 83 Chapter Six Bahria Town: A Military-Related Real Estate Venture 95 Chapter Seven The Military as Landlord in the Pakistani Punjab: Case Study of the Okara Farms 105 Chapter Eight Guardians No More? The Breakdown of the Consensus 129 Glossary 137 Index 141 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to acknowledge the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation for generously providing funds for field research. We have dedicated this book to Eqbal Ahmad, because not only was he an excellent speaker, he was an equally great listener. He had the gift of making people he listened to feel special, as he heard everything they said. In that spirit, we listened to many individuals who provided material for this book. The nature of this book precludes us from listing them here, but it is they who wrote the book via their individual interviews or participation in group discussions. We would also like to thank Zia Main, both as Vice President of the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation and for substantively and helpfully engaging with us. A fellowship from Amherst College, which facilitated the writing, and research grants from Mount Holyoke College are also gratefully acknowledged. It has been a pleasure working with Miranda Kitchener, whose efficiency we would like to acknowledge, as well as Suzanne Sherman Aboulfadl, who has worked with us on several books and has consistently done excellent work. Finally, thanks are due to Rudmila Salek for excellent and invaluable formatting assistance.
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