00977pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002000040245002800060260000900088300001600097362001000113520043400123650003900557650002800596773003400624909001000658999001700668952011000685180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d aZaidi, S. Akbar aPolitics and government c2002 ap.4539-540. a2 Nov aPolitical developments in Pakistan since 1999 have seen growing moves at power centralisation, accompanied by a curtailment of constitutional directives and other institutions of democratic governance. With western powers paying mere lip-service to universal civilisational principle, it is the politics of opportunism that now forms the new guiding principle much as it had during military regimes in another era. - Reproduced. aPakistan - Politics and government aPolitics and government aEconomic and Political Weekly a54434 c54434d54434 00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 37, Issue no: (44-45)pAR54879r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR