Tayyab Siddiqui
Tayyab Siddiqui is a former ambassador of Pakistan. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: OIC – Retrospect and Prospects Musharraf’s Kashmir Policy: An Appraisal India – Emerging Global Power
India – Emerging Global Power
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
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Musharraf’s Kashmir Policy: An Appraisal
By Tayyab Siddiqui[*] Kashmir has been a festering sore and primary cause of friction and conflict between India and Pakistan. Accordingly, it has been a priority on the foreign policy agenda of each government but has defied resolution and even led to two wars between the two states. It was, therefore, not surprising that in
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OIC – Retrospect and Prospects
By Tayyab Siddiqui[1] Abstract It is frustrating that 57 Muslim countries, in possession of 70 percent of the world energy resources and 40 percent of the available raw material, should record only 5 percent of the world GDP. The failure of the Muslim world to embrace modern technology and spread education is obvious with only
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