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WHAT WENT WRONG A CRITIQUE ON PAKISTANS WAR ON TERROR

07 Pages : 70-76

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-III).07      10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-III).07      Published : Sep 2024

What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror

    This paper explores the collective loss experienced by a family and a community of ‘Mir Ali’ in Fatima Bhutto’s The Shadow of the Crescent Moon (2013). By using Butler, 2003 and Moglen, 2005 theories of loss (personal and social), personal and collective mourning, and melancholia, the study reveals how people of Pakistan’s backward tribal area, Mir Ali, have suffered the trauma, loss, mourning and melancholy on personal and collective level during the ‘War on Terror’ by being alienated from their country. A detailed study of characters (Aman, Sammara, Mina, Hayat, and Sikandar) emphasizes how undermining it is to persons and families when they are tossed into rings of fire that expand and cause not only individual loss but irreparable communal or collective loss.

    Collective Loss, Personal Loss, Mourning, Trauma
    (1) Sadia Nazeer
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Anbarin Fatima
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Nayab Saqib Ghani
    English Educationist, Roots Millennium School, Khyber Campus, KP, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Nazeer, Sadia, Anbarin Fatima, and Nayab Saqib Ghani. 2024. "What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror." Global Political Review, IX (III): 70-76 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-III).07
    HARVARD : NAZEER, S., FATIMA, A. & GHANI, N. S. 2024. What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror. Global Political Review, IX, 70-76.
    MHRA : Nazeer, Sadia, Anbarin Fatima, and Nayab Saqib Ghani. 2024. "What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror." Global Political Review, IX: 70-76
    MLA : Nazeer, Sadia, Anbarin Fatima, and Nayab Saqib Ghani. "What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror." Global Political Review, IX.III (2024): 70-76 Print.
    OXFORD : Nazeer, Sadia, Fatima, Anbarin, and Ghani, Nayab Saqib (2024), "What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror", Global Political Review, IX (III), 70-76
    TURABIAN : Nazeer, Sadia, Anbarin Fatima, and Nayab Saqib Ghani. "What Went Wrong? A Critique on Pakistan’s War on Terror." Global Political Review IX, no. III (2024): 70-76. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-III).07