CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP IN THE POLITICS OF PAKISTAN (1948-1958)
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This research seeks to enhance our understanding of the crisis of political leadership that Pakistan had to face as a newly emerged country. The primary objective of the paper is to find out factors behind the crisis of leadership. Inefficiency and internal clashes and rivalries of political leadership resulted in the empowerment of non-elected institutions like civil and military bureaucracy. The article applies a mix method approach and relies on the primary and secondary sources. The study argues that after the death of its founder, the political leadership of Pakistan was mostly incapable and inexperienced in handling the affairs of the state that paved way for the non-elected institutions to capitalize their role in the political matters and ultimately becoming the supreme authority. This study suggests that the crisis of political leadership was one of the major fundamental causes in destabilizing the country politically. The political leadership was so busy in power politics that they yielded their authority to the civil and military bureaucracy who became dominant during 1948 to 1958.
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