This article analyses the initial post-independence UK-Pakistan relationship through a decolonial lens and makes comparisons with recent developments. The importance of this approach is the contextualisation of this relationship within colonialism, but also how steps have been and continue to be taken by both countries towards and away from decolonisation.
UK-Pakistan relations began with Pakistan’s independence on 14 August 1947, but because it is defined by the dynamics between the British colonial administration in pre-Partition India and the indigenous people, it will be viewed here through a decolonial lens. Decolonisation is understood as the formal process of freedom from…