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

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