SEEKING SUPREMACY

THE PURSUIT OF JUDICIAL POWER IN PAKISTAN

By YASSER KURESHI

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The emergence of the judiciary as an assertive and confrontational centre of power has been the most consequential new feature of Pakistan’s political system. This book maps the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary and the military in Pakistan, explaining why Pakistan’s high courts shifted from loyal deference to the military to open competition and confrontation with military and civilian institutions.
Yasser Kureshi demonstrates that a shift in the audiences shaping judicial preferences explains the emergence of the judiciary as an assertive power centre. As the judiciary gradually embraced less deferential institutional preferences, it sought to play a more expansive and authoritative political role.
Using this audience-based approach, Kureshi roots the judiciary in its political, social and institutional context, and develops a generalisable framework that can explain variation and change in judicial-military relations around the world.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9789694027340
Categories:
Ad, Fresh New Books Sep 3, 2026, All Products, Non Fiction, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, Vanguard Books, Vanguard Publications
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2026
Number of Pages: 303
Author:
YASSER KURESHI
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Language: English
Weight: 0.547 g

About the Author

Yasser Kureshi is the John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow in Constitutional Theory and Law at the University of Oxford. His research concerns the military and the judiciary, and their impact on constitutional configurations and democratic outcomes in authoritarian and post-authoritarian states. His other research interests include democratic backsliding in South Asia, coup-legitimation strategies, federalism and the making of legal cultures. His work has appeared in Comparative Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Democratization.