Power Failure: Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman

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Author: Syeda Abida Hussain

Pages: 440

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Publication Date: March 29,2015

Category: Political History



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The book is a political biography of the author-in which she’s intertwined the impacts that key political events of the united states have got on her behalf personal life-and on the destiny of the country. Additionally it is an anecdotal accounts of missed possibilities. The written text has been improved by corresponding photos, both, from her personal and general public existence. Pakistan’s close embroilment in Afghanistan offers been covered, starting from the past due seventies correct up to the initial 10 years of the twenty-first century. Light in addition has been shed on the regressive components in Pakistan. She provides information on the deterioration and erosion of the country’s organizations.

The book continues on to go over the high developmental potentials of Pakistan, when it had been carved out of India as another country during Partition in 1947; the unremitting diminishing progressive curve because the country’s inception; and the consequent rise of militant and extremist organizations emerging away of religiosity instead of religion onto the political landscape. The writer attempts to supply insights into the factors: poverty and inequity of our societal construct, conspiracies spawned by people and passions, both at the nationwide in addition to international levels, who simply sought to provide what were frequently their perceived short-term aims and goals. As a person and as a politician, the writer often found herself swept up, quite unwittingly, in the vortex of the issue and ensuing occasions, with her life frequently under danger, and her profession in politics interrupted, also prematurely curtailed. A distinctive insight has been provided increasing of extremism.

Reliant on personal notes and diaries and additional source materials, Syeda Abida Hussain in this publication, has recorded events which have resonated with her, and where she had some component to play.

The narrative starts with a chapter on the author’s privileged childhood, her access into politics, and the hurdles and struggles that she confronted on the way as a female politician in the male dominated culture of rural Punjab.


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