In this lecture Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash will discuss the internal developments of Pakistan in the last decade. He will make an assessment of the trajectory of the country under the elected governments of Presidents Asif Ali Zardari (2008-2013) and Nawaz Sharif (2013-). He will also look at what might be in store for Pakistan in the medium to long run.
Dr Bangash is a historian of Modern South Asia. He has a BA from the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is the Head of Humanities and Director of the Centre for Governance and Policy at the Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan. His current research interests lie in the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state, with broader interests in decolonisation, modern state formation, the formation of identities, and the emergence of ethnic and identity based conflicts. Dr Bangash’s DPhil thesis was on the accession and integration of the princely states in Pakistan. This work was published by Oxford University Press as A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of Princely States in Pakistan, 1947-55 (2015, pp 472).
Dr Bangash is currently working on a monograph on the imagination of Pakistan as a country after its creation, using the debates of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947—56) as primary material. He is the official historian of Forman Christian College, and is working on a history of the college, due to be published in 2016. He regularly writes for The News, The Express Tribune as well as other newspapers and journals.

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