What are Pakistan's successes and failures? Is it on a course of self-destruction?

Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed is a well-known Swedish scholar of Pakistani background. He laments that Pakistan is on a course of self-destruction. Its education system has no room for critical thinking. Instead of enlightenment, it is geared towards indoctrination. It neglects science and technology, placing too much emphasis on religion. Its social sciences and in particular historiography are based on self-righteousness. For example, Jinnah is portrayed as an infallible leaders who could not do anything wrong.

You cannot achieve anything without the ability to think critically. The Pakistani mind has been put in prison. Pakistani social scientists and historians have an infantile attitude towards knowledge. He says that the creation of Pakistan benefited landowners and that it was meant to be a military state. Pakistan can become a prosperous country by changing the course of its foreign policy. It needs to have good relations with all its neighbors.

Born in Lahore on February 24, 1947, he holds a PhD in political science from Stockholm University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, one of the finest universities in the world, and at the South Asian Studies Program, National University of Singapore from June 2007 to June 2010. He is member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity"; "Journal of Punjab Studies"; "IPRI Journal, Islamabad"; and "PIPS Research Journal of Conflict and Peace Studies, Islamabad".

He received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986, where he taught a range of courses from the basic to the doctoral levels. Besides teaching mainstream subjects such as political theory he also lectured and wrote on the politics of South Asia (mainly Pakistan and India, but also Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), political Islam in various contexts and in world politics, human rights, multiculturalism and on ethnicity, identity and nationalism.
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