Download or read book The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan written by Ziad Haider and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative.