• Mubarra Javed

  Author

The study aimed to analyze the factors that derailed democracy and caused political and social
unrest in Pakistan during military regime of General Zia, in Aslam’s Season of The Rain birds
(1993), in the perspective of theory of New Historicism. The analysis reveals that since
independence the institutions of democracy have not been strengthened in a comparable manner
due to certain factors, i.e. corruption of bureaucracy and politicians, politicization of religious
ideology and intervention of military forces. Until The dynastic politics, the murky nexus
between religion, politics, and corruption exists, that leads society to extremism and fanaticism,
the toll on democracy continues to grow. The findings lead to the conclusion that as long as
ruling authorities are not held accountable to the masses and yield to the laws, as long as the
system of checks and balances not dev eloped, as long as the poor people are exploited in
the hands of powerful politicians, religious authorities and bureaucracy, the institutions of
democracy cannot be stabilized in Pakistan.

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