VOL 4 NO 1

By Khalid Saleem[1] Verily in the sight of Allah, the most honoured amongst you is the one who is most God-fearing. There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-Arab over an Arab, nor for the white over the black, nor for the black over the white, except in God-consciousness” […]

The paper’s main thesis is that the difficulty Pakistan has faced in maintaining macro-economic stability, sustaining economic growth and delivering public services to the poor can be ascribed to weak economic governance and gradual decline in the capacity of key institutions. By Ishrat Husain[1] Abstract.  To strengthen economic governance, a non-partisan long-term strategic approach is

By Nazia Hussain[1] Abstract The links between the Afghans, state-building and the opium poppy economy need to be analyzed beyond convenient fear mongering causalities.  For this a determination has to be made whether the drug-funded non-state actors pose a greater danger to the country and the region than the ineffectual attempts at state-building that contribute

By Talat Farooq[1] Abstract. This article presents a theoretical framework pertaining to definitional issues and explanation of state expansion in both the Western and the non Western world. It further examines the relevance of the warfare theory to Global War on Terror that has resulted in expanded state capacity in the United States. Author Definition

By Kazi Anwarul Masud[1] Abstract Authoritarian military regimes have ruled Pakistan over extended periods since the country’s emergence in 1947. In this period there have been brief interludes of unstable civilian governments. Contemporary Pakistan is beset by terrorism, sectarian violence and religious extremism.  The writ of the state has been eroded particularly in the Federally

By A.G. Noorani[1] Abstract During the Jinnah-Mountbatten meeting at Lahore on I November 1947, the latter proposed: “The Governments of India and Pakistan agree that, where the ruler of a State does not belong to the community to which the majority of his subjects belong, and where the State has not acceded to that Dominion

Amongst the violent non-state actors operating in the world today, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the best known. Since its emergence in the early 1970s, LTTE has waged a relentless armed insurgency in the North and East of Sri Lanka in pursuit of its goal to secure a homeland for the Tamil

No country, big or small, is immune from terrorist violence. This is what the macabre events in Mumbai demonstrated with chilling clarity. Like 9/11, the 26 November attack on Mumbai was carried out by less than a dozen men motivated as much by hate as by their contempt for life. The carnage they perpetrated was