Open AccessDecline of Separatist Movement in Sindh (1971-77): An Outcome of PPP Rise to Power
Author(s) -
Sultan Mubariz Khan,
Asia Saif Alvi,
Farzana Zaheer Syed
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global regional review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7030
pISSN - 2616-955X
DOI - 10.31703/grr.2020(v-iii).28
Subject(s) - politics , popularity , government (linguistics) , ideology , political science , nationalism , state (computer science) , mainstream , power (physics) , political economy , development economics , sociology , law , economics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
The decade of 1970 witnessed a landmark change in Sindh's political spectrum as the centripetal elements started to flourish while putting centrifugal politics into the background. Why did the political mosaic of Sindh alter? And how did it alter? These key questions are investigated in this study. Since this alteration owed the fundamental structural and ideological transformation of Pakistan's politics. Pakistan People's Party (PPP)) headed by a leader from rural Sindh formed a central government as well as the provincial government of Sindh. Various measures taken by the PPP government got appreciations of Sindhi masses and became a cause to promote greater attachment with the Pakistani state, which appeared estranged erstwhile. Hence, the hypothesis gets approved that the popularity of a mainstream political party in a peripheral region can strengthen the process of national integration and evaporate sub-nationalist separatist tendencies. This study is based on deductive reasoning as it makes a profound analysis of the phenomenon in perspective of scholarly insights of Alexis Heraclides, Ramon Maize and Susan J. Henders.