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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: An Afghan Trail from Jihad to Terrorism covers the
life history of one of Afghanistan’s most prominent warlords. For the last
nearly three decades, Hekmatyar has been an important character in successive
phases of Afghan warfare. His Hizb-e-Islami is second to Taliban in the current
insurgency in Afghanistan. The study attempts to answer questions such as: How
has Hekmatyar survived so many phases of warfare in Afghanistan’s recent
history? What distinguishes
him from other notorious Afghan warlords such Rashid Dostum? Is he motivated as much by religious radicalism as does Taliban leader Mullah Omar or al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, or
merely using religious radicalism as a cover to realise his age-old pragmatic
goal of capturing political power in Kabul?
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Pan Graphics, Islamabad |
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2004, 151 pages |
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India and Pakistan: Charting a Path to Peace is
a historical account of the problems inherent in relationship between South Asia’s two arch rivals. It takes the readers to the pre-partition days in an attempt to search the root-causes of the Subcontinent’s most devastating hostility, and charts out a clear course for its eventual ending. The book was published in early 2004, when the two countries had just resumed the peace process. The cautiously optimistic scenario the study presented at the time is still relevant today. The book argues that while Kashmir dispute remains a major impediment to peace in South Asia, Pakistan cannot afford to ignore the blowback from the jihadi warfare in Kashmir, nor can India escape the fact that its repressive policy in Kashmir reflects adversely on its democratic credibility. |
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Pan Graphics, Islamabad |
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2004, 147 pages |
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The Divided Island: A Pakistani Perspective
on Cyprus is an analysis of the Cyprus conflict in historical and contemporary
contexts. With a foreword written by former Turkish Cypriot President Rrauf Denktash,
the book was published in late 1999, when UN proximity talks between Greek
and Turkish Cypriot leaders resumed and the European Council at its summit in Helsinki
decided to start EU accession talks with the Greek Cypriot administration. The island, the study argues, is lived by two different ethno-religious
communities. The international community unjutly recognizes only Greek Cypriots as representing
the legitimate government of Cyprus. This constitutes the main cause
of the continuity of Cyprus conflict, comlicated further to due the issue of EU membership of the island.
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1999, 189 pages |
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New Nuclear Order: Call from Chaghai and Pokhran places in
perspective the 1998 nuclear testing by India and Pakistan and its implications
for the nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime. Until the late 1990s, the world was lived
only by five recognized nuclear weapon states—the United States, Russia, the United
Kingdom, France and China. Now two more countries, compelled by their respective
regional security concerns, had entered the nuclear race, even though their nuclear
testing could not win them international legitimacy at the time. Given that, the book addresses
questions such as: What qualitative change did the 1998 Indo-Pak nuclear tests bring about in South Asian security climate? And, how did the nuclearization of
South Asia impact global nuclear non-proliferation regime? |
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Institute of Regional Studies |
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Islamabad,
1998, 200 pages |
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Pakistan
in a Changing World: Foreign Policy Options is an edited volume of proceedings
of a national conference on ‘Pakistan and the Changing World’ held in Murree, Pakistan, in July
1997. The conference was participated by directors of Area Study Centres dealing
with the Americas, Africa, Europe, South Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific,
Central Asia, and the Middle East situated at six leading universities across Pakistan.
The papers cover the challenges and prospects for Pakistan’s foreign policy vis-à-vis
each of these continents and regions at the turn of the century—such as how to deal
with Afghanistan under Taliban, tackle the US tilt towards India, pursue a ‘Look
East’ policy towards South-East Asia, benefit from Europe’s growing global significance
and consolidate Pakistan's ties with Gulf countries? »Full Text |
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Institute of Regional
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Islamabad, 1997, 67 pages |
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Issues in South Asia
is an edited volume of proceedings of an international conference on the 'Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Issues in South Asia' held in Islamabad in April 1995 on the eve
of indefinite extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the same year.
The conference was participated by scholars, scientists and diplomats from the United
States, Russia, China, Germany, Japan, India, Egypt, Iran, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The papers offer varied perspectives on the international non-proliferation regime,
its principal dilemmas and future prospects, with a particular focus on South Asia.
The book’s conclusive arguments are a reminder of the fact that much of the scholarly
discourse on the NPT remains as relevant today as it was in the preceeding decades.
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Technological Information |
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Centre, 1996, 145 pages |
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The Nuclear Danger: Moving Down to Minimum Deterrence discusses the Strategic Arms
Reduction Talks (START) process between the United States and Russia in a historical
context, as well as the principal challenges it faced and its future prospects at the time of its publication in 1996. The START process, the study argues, aims
to constrain the first-strike potential of the two nuclear powers and allow them
to deploy their respective strategic weapons at lower
level of forces and in survivable ways. Moving down to minimum deterrence levels,
the study argues, will stabilise US-Russian deterrence relationship. Arms control,
the book additionally argues, is not merely about
limiting or reducing arms; rather, it includes all measures to prevent the occurrence
of war or to limit its scope should it occur.
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National Book Foundation |
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Islamabad, 1996, 200 pages |
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