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About Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies
Pakistaniaat is a refereed, multidisciplinary, and open access academic journal offering a forum for scholarly and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani history, culture, literature, and politics. Housed in the English Department of the University of North Texas, Pakistaniaat is a sponsored journal of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. Available online as well as in print, Pakistaniaat publishes three issues per year. All sales of our Print Version support our online open access mission.
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Universities: telling the good from the bad
Why the courts won’t do the expected, or the...
A Gentler Side of Religion: Interview with Ori Soltes
While there are many cable and satellite companies, who offer one or two Pakistani...
Grading universities is not an easy task. As in a beauty contest, opinions...
Pakistani politics is an endless procession of surprises. The expected never occurs and hardly...
That said, focusing on the Israelis and Palestinians, as an optimist I would hope...
Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally – probably its closest one. In 1947, Iran was the first to recognise the newly independent Pakistan. In the 1965 war with India, Pakistani fighter jets flew to Iranian bases in Zahedan and Mehrabad for protection and refuelling. Both countries...
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Over the past few weeks, Pakistan’s army has been faced with the quandary of whether to take over through a coup or not, while the rest of us are left wondering if this fragile democracy will survive, or once again be defeated by its formidable challenger – the army. ...
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The miraculous uprising which swept the whole region should be seen in the context of political, economic, demographic and technological backdrop of the region, not in continuation with any past movement. Immanuel Wallerstein, the known social scientist, views the Arab spring as a continuation of the unfinished movement of...
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Grading universities is not an easy task. As in a beauty contest, opinions and tastes count. But the...
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Pakistani politics is an endless procession of surprises. The expected never occurs and hardly ever in the expected manner....
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On January 24, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon vented his frustration at Pakistan’s determined opposition to a treaty that would...
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While there are many cable and satellite companies, who offer one or two Pakistani television channels, the big contenders are Dish Network and Direct TV. Both of them offer multiple channels, but I have to say that the latter actually has a package specifically designed with Pakistani channels in mind. There are many Pakistani...
That said, focusing on the Israelis and Palestinians, as an optimist I would hope that eventually there will arise a set of leaders who recognize the common humanity shared by both these communities. In today’s world of increasing religious intolerance and even violence, Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, a scholar of Jewish and religious studies,...
Aima Agha, working on a research project on Pakistan, has sent us the following...
Coverage of the World Wetlands Day event celebrated in Pakistan. The Pakistan Wetlands Programme...
