FRONTIER STATIONS
FRONTIER STATIONS

FRONTIER STATIONS

AN ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC SERVICE IN PAKISTAN
By SHAKIL DURRANI
Rs.2,750
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This book chronicles the author’s account of his public service of over forty years while serving at the highest levels of civil governments in different provinces of Pakistan, including the Tribal Areas, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir. The author records his account from his own distinct perspective. The book is insightful and remarkable in its authenticity and frankness. It is both a personal memoir and a reflection on Pakistan’s system of administration. Durrani has an insider’s view of many of the critical issues of governance and development which Pakistan faces. His long career covers a critical period of Pakistan’s recent history and he is a valuable witness to it. The book will be of interest not only to the reading public of Pakistan but to specialists, academics, diplomats, journalists and development practitioners.

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About the Author

– David Page, Former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University He served with distinction for more than 40 years and his experience gives him an authoritative perspective on the many changes that have taken place in Pakistan’s system of governance under the impact of a turbulent history. He is unsparing in his criticism of failures but generous in acknowledging the good intentions or shrewd choices and achievements of politicians and administrators where he finds them. What used to be called the ‘romance’ of the Frontier may today be dismissed as an illusory imperial British construct, masking the reality of conquest and forceful suppression of resistance. In Durrani’s account, the romance had not disappeared and some at least of British imperial policy and practices are compared favourably with those of the successor Pakistani administrations. – William Crawley, Journal of Royal Society of Asian Affairs London

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