VOL 6 NO 1

By Hamid Raza Khan* Introduction Media events’ is a popular term which has become the focus of media and communications studies research in recent times. The term has been coined by Dayan and Katz in their book ‘Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History’ which they call a study of “festive viewing of television.” What […]

By Shaikh Muhammed Ali* Abstract: In interpreting the rule of law and limited government, classical Muslim scholars always referred to core elements of modern democratic practice. Limited government and the rule of law are the two most legitimate elements of the system of government today. Democracy’s moral power lies in the idea that the citizens

By KS Dhillon* The long awaited verdict delivered by the Lucknow bench of the Allahbad High Court in the decades old title suit between some Hindu and  Muslim organizations over  the  ownership  of  a  piece  of  land, known  as  the  Babri  Masjid-Ramjanambhumi complex  in Ayodhya has evoked mixed reactions not only in India but throughout

By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi* There are slightly less than 200 member states of the United Nations. Pakistan is one of them. In terms of population, at slightly less than 200 million, Pakistan is the sixth largest country in the world, and by 2020 it is scheduled to become the fifth largest surpassing Brazil. At almost

By A. G. NOORANI* Ever since its democratic Constitution of 1956 was abrogated by a military coup in 1958, Pakistan went through a series of convulsions, culminating in the end of President Pervez Musharraf’s rule in 2008. The country needed a New Settlement rooted in a national consensus. The Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act 2010 is

By Imtiyaz Gul Khan* Abstract (Steps implemented in the educational sector in Afghanistan in the early 20th  century showed a lot of promise for future generations. However, unfortunately, more than three decades of war and political turmoil in the country has seriously hampered the development of education. A large segment of the Afghan population, children

By Sultan M. Hali* Abstract: (The author has traced out the origin of suicide bombing and tried to explore the methodology involved in converting normal young men into killing machines, with the urge for self immolation. With the help of case histories from Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Britain and Lebanon, an attempt has been made to

Pakistan had been suffering from three serious external shocks before the recent devastation to human lives, property, infrastructure and social services caused by the floods that struck the country in August-September 2010. By Ishrat Husain* Pakistan was engaged in fighting militants and terrorists since 2001.   Forty three billion dollars of losses have been incurred so

By Toheed Ahmad* Abstract Muhammad Asad (1900-1992), an Austrian born Jew who converted to Islam, was an accomplished scholar of Arabic and Persian. He spent several years in Saudi Arabia, where he befriended the royal family, and then moved on to British India and lived mainly in Lahore, Abbottabad, Srinagar and Dalhousie. Upon a suggestion