NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES

ISLAMABAD

Dilawar Hussain

COURSE OUTLINE
Programme DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIRCAL ENGINEERING
Semester Second Semester (Evening)
Course Title Ideology and Constitution of Pakistan
Credit Hours 2 Hours Per Week

INTRODUCTION:
This Course is offered to familiarized students with the historical trajectories which led to
the partition of India and eventually to create a new state, Pakistan, in August 1947. It offers a
structural overview of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 to understand the
government system, working of the federal parliament, constitutional rights and responsibilities,
embedded in it.
EVALUATION:
a. Mid-term exams (30)
b. Class participation (05)
c. Attendance (05)
d. Presentations (10)
e. Final-term exams (50)
CONTENT:
British Raj and Response of Indian Muslims, 1857-1947
1. Arrival of Islam in South Asia: Factors and Consequences
2. Muslim Rule in India, (1206-1526 and 1526-1858)
3. Decline of Muslim Rule in India: Causes and Impacts
4. British Rule in India and Response of Indian Muslims, (1858-1947)
Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Pakistan, 1947-1971
1. Political Developments (1947-1958) and the Constitution of 1956
2. Ayub Regime (1958-1969) and the Constitution of 1962
3. First General Elections and Separation of East Pakistan (1969-1971)
Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Pakistan, post-1971
1. The ‘New Pakistan’ and Constitution-making 1971-1972
2. The Constitution of Pakistan, 1973
3. Structural and Thematic Overview of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973
Contemporary Pakistan
1. Geo-strategic Importance of Pakistan
2. Foreign Policy of Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects
3. Socio-cultural Profile of Pakistan

Recommended Readings:
a. Constitutional Documents

Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (as passed by the Second Constituent Assembly
on February 29, 1956) (Karachi: Government of Pakistan Press, 1956).

Constitution of the Republic of Pakistan 1962 (Karachi: Government of Pakistan Press, 1962).

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as passed by the National Assembly of
Pakistan on April 10, 1973 (Islamabad: National Assembly of Pakistan, 1973).

The Constitution of Pakistan as modified up to May 31, 2018 (Islamabad: National Assembly of
Pakistan, 2018).

b. Books

Afzal, M. Rafique. Pakistan: History and Politics 1947-1971 (Karachi: Oxford University Press,
2009).
Choudhury, G. W. Constitutional Developments in Pakistan (London: Longman Group Ltd.,
1959).
Hayat, Sikandar ed. Pakistan Studies: A Book of Readings (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel
Publications, 2023).
Niaz, Ilhan. Culture of Power and Governance in Pakistan, 1947-2008 (Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 2010.
Rais, Rasul Bakhsh. State. Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 1996).
Rehman, Tariq. Language and Politics in Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Sayeed, Khalid. The Political System of Pakistan (Kingston: Queens’s University Press, 1966).

Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: A Modern History (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1999).