Abstract

Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. E-mail: salmamalik@gmail.com. Tel: (92-51) 90643076.

In spite of being a very critical issue, as such there has been a dearth of literature on the civil military relations of Pakistan. Most of the existing scholarship that exists in the field is by established writers such as Hasan Askari Rizvi, Saeed Shafqat, Muhammad Waseem, Ayesha Jalal or Khalid Bin Sayyed, who have covered the complete gamut of the complex militarization of Pakistani politics, or what in other terms can be said politicisation of military. However, there have been but few and sparing studies on specific military regimes, with next to nothing on the very crucial eleven years of Zia-ul-Haq