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    The teaching of Pashto: identity versus employment

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pashto was associated with Pashtun identity in British times, this was seen as an anti-British and antinon-Muslim tendency. It was anti-British because the British official policy was to favour the teaching of Urdu. It was anti non-Muslim, at least in the eyes of Hindus and Sikhs, because they felt that their language and culture would be under threat.
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    Anatomy of ethnic militancy: case of Karachi, Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The crux of the problem is that the Pakistan is facing a constitutional crisis. The 1973 Constitution was framed in the aftermath of the rupture of Islamabad-Dacca relations and the secession of East Pakistan. The constitution paid considerable attention to Centre-province and inter-provincial relations.
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    The language of employment: the case of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    One cannot find employment in a modern state without being able to read, write and speak (in that order) a certain, standardised, written language. In short, to be part of the salariat in Pakistan one must know a certain language the characteristics of which are investigated in this paper.
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    The teaching of Sindhi and Sindhi ethnicity

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Sindhi is one of the most ancient languages of India. The government, therefore, gets a number of books, including Aesop’s Fables, translated from different languages into Sindhi. Among these are books on arithmetic, geography, drawing and history.
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    Natural resources: blessing or curse

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2010
    Natural resource based political conflicts are not only unique to Pakistan but are now quite visible in many developing and transition countries and this topic has also caught the interest of development researchers and political policy analysts.
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    Natural resource allocation in Balochistan and NWFP: reasons for discontent

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2009
    Natural resource based political conflicts are not only unique to Pakistan, but are now quite visible in many developing and transition countries and this topic has also caught the interest of development researchers and political policy analysts. Various root causes of resource related conflicts have been documented in the literature.
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    Karachi’s Violence: Duality and Negotiation

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2011
    Karachi has historically been the locus of opportunity for the rest of the country, but its position within Sindh sharpens the economic dualism between urban and rural areas, agriculture and industry, and the two major ethnic groups of Sindh.
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    India in Afghanistan: a rising power or a hesitant power?

    2012
    Ever since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, India has tried to pursue a pro-active Afghanistan policy and a broad-based interaction is taking place between the two states. This is also a time when Indian capabilities - political, economic, and military - have increased markedly and India has become increasingly ambitious in defining its foreign policy agenda.  
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    Pakistan: politics, religion & extremism

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2009
    The question that arises is that if militant theology is more often a consequence than a cause for militant orientation, then what leads religious groups towards militancy in the first place? Why did religious groups choose violence to improve the lot of their institutions and constituents, resisting repression and gaining political power?
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    Pakistan: the worsening IDP crisis

    International Crisis Group, 2010
    This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime.

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