Unfortunately for Pakistan, the size of the middle class was very small when it came into existence, and the country was dominated by a small powerful feudal elite created by the British rulers to sustain their colonial rule. And the urban middle class remained small for decades. The situation...
The way forward for both Pakistan and India is to seek to break the impasse between ourselves. And there is no doubt the root problem remains Kashmir, and the hysteria and terrorism it has spawned over the years. A resolution of these fundamental issues calls for some hard scholarship, politi...
With the return of Taliban to Afghanistan in 2021 and parts of Pakistan including Swat in 2022, and Taliban's restrictions on women’s mobility are once again beginning to be felt within the everyday markets. It remains to be seen how the Taliban and the state generate, manipulate and ...
both deliberately and indirectly during the invasion of the Mongols in the 13thcentury. Islamic scholars also created their own sophisticated scholarship,
Arsenic(As)-mediated contamination of groundwater resources in different parts of the world is a consequence of natural or anthropogenic sources, leading t
This paper’s main aim was to address the gap in the existing scholarship regarding the nexus between populism combined with Islamist civilisationism in the context of Pakistan. Tracing the narrative of Khan’s “New Pakistan” demonstrates the domestic and transitional dimensions, being thick and ...