at stake and leaving them to experience unbearable pain and constantly suffering from one misery after another. Justice is either denied or delayed and every institution pokes its nose into the affairs of other institution putting citizens' fundamental human rights of life, liberty, justice, freedom, and general welfare etc. The state writ has been brazenly challenged again and again by unlawful forces. The state properly failed to implement rule of law and making sure the provision of fundamental rights of every citizen.
The present study in the light of the selected theoretical framework analyzed explicitly depicted state failure. The novel presents Pakistan as a state where lawlessness abounds and citizens' fundamental rights are frequently usurped. The work of Diamond (2015) was used to form a conceptual framework for this research. Qualitative content analysis technique was used for data analysis. Omar Shahid Hamid's novel is set in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan.
The present research analyses the novel The Prisoner in the context of state failure. State failure refers to the weak writ of the state and failure of different state institutions to function for the welfare of the people.
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