{"id":17,"date":"2015-12-08T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-12-12T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T19:23:21","slug":"the-survival-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/2015\/12\/08\/the-survival-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Survival of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I created this sketch titled \u201cThe Survival of Pakistan\u201d to convey how, despite the divisive nature of Islam, various uniting factors in Pakistan have managed to hold the nation together. Sardar in \u201cThat Question Mark\u201d outlines this divided nation with the notion that Islam \u201cfunctions as a mechanism for oppression\u201d (Sardar, 5). He alludes to the \u2018chain of deep state\u2019 philosophy to describe how Islam was used to maintain balance between military, feudal landlords, and politicians. Islam took on a highly toxic connotation. It managed to drive communities apart and clashed aross various dimensions of society. This clash became most evident between the Shi\u2019a and Sunni Muslims. Many of the papers we read that week described the ways in which this sectarian conflict divided the nation, with little mention of the ways the nation was able to thrive. I, therefore, found interest in Sardar\u2019s paper because he stresses why Pakistan did not completely fall apart. In addition to the resourceful abilities of the individual, he highlights the healing source media, music, and literature has provided for Pakistan.<\/p>\n

I attempt to demonstrate this conflict and survival in my drawing. The Deodar cedar tree represents Pakistan, as it is the national tree. The Sunnis and Shiites depict the sectarian conflict threatening to tear the nation (tree) down with their violence and political corruption. As we see Pakistan falling, it still remains held up by cultural forces. I represent the music and literature sources of Pakistan holding the tree up against the opposing forces. Music was something that everyone shared in common no matter what their beliefs or interests were. Pakistanis managed to connect\u00a0over pop culture sources, like the music television series\u00a0Coke Studio. Sardar mentions how this pop culture was\u00a0\u201ca clear attempt to bridge the cultural fragmentation of Pakistan\u2019\u201d(Sardar, 13). This outlet of music and deep-rooted literature brought Pakistan together through a single shared aspect of society. With the\u00a0many Islams creating a pressing need for union,\u00a0these cultural traditions played a\u00a0restorative\u00a0role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I created this sketch titled \u201cThe Survival of Pakistan\u201d to convey how, despite the divisive nature of Islam, various uniting factors in Pakistan have managed to hold the nation together. Sardar in \u201cThat Question Mark\u201d outlines this divided nation with the notion that Islam \u201cfunctions as a mechanism for oppression\u201d (Sardar, 5). He alludes to … Continue reading The Survival of Pakistan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tutroneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}