Abstract
The interests of the United States in the geo-strategic position of Pakistan always
determine the realist stance behind the fluctuating nature of the U.S.-Pakistan
Relations. Based on this interest oriented relationship, the image construction of
the United States has always been one of the significant areas of political cartoons
in Pakistan because political cartoon is considered as a rebellious medium to
raise voice against absurd realities but its importance is always overlooked in
Pakistan. Thus, this paper aims to examine political cartoons published in
mainstream English newspapers of Pakistan (The News, the Nation and the Dawn)
from January 1991 to March 2013 in five political regimes including four
democratic and one military rule. This paper intends to comprehend that how
political cartoons remained powerful in representing the images of the United
States during pre-9/11 and post 9/11 decades with different internal issues, foreign
conflicts and political scenarios. The Barthes’s model of semiotic analysis is
applied to analyze the political cartoons to examine the the ‘love-hate syndrome’
of Pakistan-US relations before and in the aftermath of 9/11.
Ayesha Ashfaq. (2019) Representation of the United States through Political Cartoons of Pakistan: Pre & Post 9/11 Image Construction, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 56, Issue 2.
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