Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free'
From minority to nation
Truncated state, divided nation
A sprawling military barrack
Pitfalls of martial rule
Toward the watershed of 1971
The rise and fall of populism
Martial rule in an Islamic garb
Democracy restored?
A geostrategic riddle
Entangled endgames
Epilogue: overcoming terror.
The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics by Ayesha Jalal. ISBN 9780674052895. Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.