VOL 4 NO 2

By Raja Tridiv Roy[*] We often tend to forget that every member of a majority community is a minority in some context or when somewhere else. A majority status is only true when confined within a fixed boundary or compartment. Germans living outside Germany are a minority as are the Chinese outside China, Hong Kong […]

By Tayyab Siddiqui[*] India, the second most populous country in the world, has through history failed to make an impact or even marginally influence world events commensurate with its resources and potential. Since its independence in 1947, modern India’s political leadership and policy planners have, however, nourished aspirations for world power status and spoken of

By S. Iftikhar Murshed [*] Allama Iqbal once said that the sign of a true believer is that he wears a smile at the time of his death in the knowledge that the yearning of the soul to be reunited with its beloved Creator is being fulfilled. This is precisely the manner in which Navid Zafar

By Mavesh Khan[*] Abstract (Research that focuses the impact of education on the economy, reaches myriads of conflicting conclusions. What seems quite clear is that adequate education alone is insufficient to improve the economic conditions of a country. There have to be other political, economic and legal institutions in place already to facilitate the impact

By Taimur Khilji[1] Abstract Asia and the Pacific region have witnessed phenomenal economic growth over the past few decades.  The growth in aggregate GDP, however, does not depict the extreme and increasing deprivation that has accompanied prosperity.   The uneven distribution of wealth is a root cause of many inter and intra-state rifts and social injustices

By Talat Farooq[*] Abstract (This is a multi-faceted topic and cannot be encapsulated within the limited space of this writing. This article therefore aims to understand the fundamentals of the relationship between Western modernism and Islam in the light of some key areas of discord. It further attempts to analyze some of the underlying factors

By Khalid Saleem[*] Abstract History is written by the victors and – albeit very occasionally – by ones that got away. When the history of the last decades of the twentieth century is finally written, the crucial turning po,int is bound to be identified as the ill-fated Soviet foray into Afghanistan. The historic upheavals elsewhere

By A. G. Noorani* Abstract. The concept of jihad has been distorted as much by extremists professing Islam as it has by detractors of the faith in the West. Aggression is proscribed by the Quran and the only kind of war permitted is one in self-defence. Extremists, however, de-contextualize verses of the Quran and base their

comment A few hours after a suicide bomber killed more than seventy and wounded twice as many worshippers during Friday prayers at a mosque in Jumrud on 27 March, President Barack Obama unveiled his Afghanistan and anti-terrorism strategy during which he warned: “Make no mistake: Al Qaeda and its extremist allies are a cancer that