Book Review: Human Security in Pakistan (2003) - Hafiz A. Pasha, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Abstract

Human Security in Pakistan is a comprehensive writing that quantifies human security and establishes an index for the evaluation and measurement of human security in Pakistan. It includes 87 indicators that set the pace for rigorous evaluation beyond the scope of the human development index. The subject matter of this study is very significant in the current context of Pakistan's security challenges. The debate on security has rapidly moved from traditional security to non-traditional security. The differentiation between traditional and non-traditional security has been differently presented by different scholars but the gist of this difference lies in the fact that security is no longer about state security focusing on securing borders through military means. Non-traditional security, rather, focuses on the different and multiple dimensions other than the military sector.