PESHAWAR, Oct 23: Ms Neelofar Asghar has been recommended for the award of PhD degree in Political Science after successful public defence of her thesis at a ceremony held in the University of Peshawar.

The topic of her research was, `Unequal development in a peripheral capitalist state: a case study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, 1947-77,` says a UoP press release. The scholar found out in her research that unequal development was the logical corollary of capitalist growth creating contradictions of development.

Poverty in the periphery is the enigma of capitalist growth, she said.

The colonial legacy of instituting four different sets of administrative procedures for the Fata, FR, Pata and settled districts implies cumbersome governance. This policy entails constitutional domain only for the settled districts whereas the major area of KP lurks outside the national and provincial legislation, consequently they are outside the realm of politicosocio-economic development. This crisis of legitimacy impacts the KP as well as the federation of Pakistan critically, she concluded.

The ceremony was attended by Department of Political Science chairman Prof AZ Hilali, faculty members and a good number of students. Bureau Report