Abstract
Pakistan was one of the most important colonies of the British Empire, which inherited more oj an organized and disciplined civil-military bureaucracy than the sea.doned, trained and experienced political elite, hence the founding elite lacked competence and sk-ill required for the delicate
and complicated task of nation building in a heterogeneous society which needed even extra wisdom,
vision, foresight and expertise to do the needful. Pakistan, as a new state faced some indigenous
problems along with those common with other decolonized states. To Rupert Emerson, “it is not
nation in being but only nation in hope (Emerson, 1960)”.Another volume “Old Societie› and New
States (Geertz, C. (1967)” ha› also highlighted these issues; while “The States of South A›ia,
Problems of National Integration (Wilson, A. J., & Dalton, D. 1982)” has identified the problems
faced bv the countries of the Subcontinent. This studv investigates whether in a highly
heterogeneous society like Pakistan, was the political power institutionalized and was any attempt
to carve out some sort of National Identity based on.somewhat minimum consensus made’
Kousar Shafiq , Shehnaz Akhter. (2019) The Problem of Institutionalization of Political Power and the crisis of National Identity in Pakistan, The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 4.
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