VOL 12 NO 2

By Javid Husain Published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York – 2016 Book Review by M Saeed Khalid A year before Donald Trump was elected as president of the world’s premier power, a veteran Pakistani diplomat, Javid Husain was mulling over the increasing disorder on the global scene and its repercussions on Pakistan. The world appeared […]

A. G. NOORANI How Pakistan Got Divided by Rao Farman Ali Khan; Oxford University Press, Karachi, 298 pages; Rs. 1150. The truths about the break up of Pakistan in 1971 are still shrouded in myths. Hasan Zaheer’s book The Separation of East Pakistan was a partisan account. One of the best accounts so far is by

A daughter’s tribute to the father who never recovered from his war wounds by Sunniya Ahmad Pirzada* *The author is a journalist at Al Jazeera English and can be reached on Twitter @SunniyaPirzada “Doctors filled his file with words like Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Schizophrenia. Our lives were measured out in what, for want of a

by Sahar Pirzada* *The author is an educationist and an editor of the journal. We are all victims of tyranny in some way or another. Victims either of the state’s incompetence, kleptocracy or by the possibility of an unconstitutional extremist surge enabled by interest groups. We are perhaps even victims of the tyranny of demagogues

by Ozer Khalid* *Ozer Khalid is a Senior Consultant, Geo-Strategist and Freelance Writer. He can be reached on [email protected] or Twitter followed on @ozerkhalid Abstract Pakistan already has an over-crowded terror operating theatre which is why ISIS Khorasan (ISIS-K denoting the ISIS South Asian affiliate) has not found it easy to make institutionalized inroads. This essay explores

Regional Perspective by Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal, TI (M)* *The author is a member of the National Academic Council, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad. He is also Chair IPS committee on “Strategic aspects of National and International Security”. Abstract Terrorism came to haunt Pakistan in the wake of the invasion of Afghanistan by

by A.G. Noorani* *The author is an eminent Indian scholar and expert on constitutional issues. Abstract History has few parallels, if any, to a document of immense consequence, such as the famous Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League. It was least understood by its supporters and opponents alike and was subjected to a close textual