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T<\/strong>he News on Sunday (TNS):\u00a0<\/span><\/b>As an academic who has returned to Pakistan after spending time abroad, how do you look at the state of Pakistan? Does it look like a failed state with no hope of redemption? Does the state need to redefine itself?<\/p>\n

Nauman Naqvi (NN):<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Frankly, most \u2014 if not all \u2014 states look like failed states at this juncture. The Pakistani middle-class has a tendency to see Pakistan as singular in its crises. In general, nationalism and the territorial spatiality of the nation-state, combined with the narcissistic individualism of capitalism, together produce an involuted individual\/collective self-imagination that results in an exceptionalist self-understanding: we are the best\/we are the worst \u2014 in either case, we are like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The News on Sunday (TNS):\u00a0As an academic who has returned to Pakistan after spending time abroad, how do you look at the state of Pakistan? Does it look like a failed state with no hope of redemption? Does the state need to redefine itself? Nauman Naqvi (NN):\u00a0Frankly, most \u2014 if not all \u2014 states look<\/p>\n

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