Abstract
The conclusion looks at the conflict in Pakistan as symptomatic of a clash between normative rules represented by the institutional design of the state and pragmatic rules that cover politics with or without adherence to ethical standards. Judiciary as the arbiter between normative and pragmatic rules often ran into controversy. Partition changed the pattern of ethnic hierarchy in the context of Punjabisation of the state that alienated other provinces. Pakistan experienced two incomplete transitions of moving away from South Asia and associating itself with Middle East. The party system in Pakistan is subsidiary to the political system dominated by extra-parliamentary forces. Instead of "imagined communities" riding on the shoulders of print capitalism and military power, postcolonial states such as Pakistan have multiple imaginations which operate as instruments of identity-based contestations. Pakistan is a state of permanent crisis management.
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