Deep State Continuum in Pakistan and Implications for India: Jyoti M. Pathania, New Delhi, KW Publishers, 2022

In a country like Pakistan, where none of its Prime Ministers could ever complete a full five-year term in office, the role of the so-called ‘deep State’ — a term used as a euphemism for its Army—in exercising disproportionate control over the affairs of the country—has often been highlighted.

However, there has been a paucity of well-researched studies that fully explore and analyse the concept of the ‘deep State’ and make Pakistan a vital and apposite case study of the term. Jyoti Pathania’s book Deep State Continuum in Pakistan and Implications for India is a significant contribution towards understanding this somewhat abstruse concept, its constituent parts, and the unseemly machinations as manifest in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.