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Socio Political Imbalances: A Threat to Pakistan’s Security
No full textThe Changing international politics after 9/11, with its multi dimensional effects brought a major shift in the security perceptions in Pakistan. Internal security concerns caused by extremisms, ethnic polarization, socio-economic problems and political instability have assumed far greater importance than external security threats to Pakistan. Pakistan is at a difficult cross roads, the present social chaos and violent strife, the uncertain political situation are creating socio-political imbalances in Pakistan. This present paper is an effort to analyze the situation. In Pakistan‟s case the capacity of political system to satisfy the demands by different groups is low, so there is a need to opt for a balanced approach to overcome the differences about linguistic, cultural diversity, economic disparity, and social stratification by increasing the efficacy of the political system
Devolution of Power Plan 2000: A Case Study of Bahawalpur District
No full textThe local government system introduced in 2000 has its own impact on the provincial as well as the national political, administrative, social and economic structures. To establish a real, on-ground framework of this system and its impact on the district level administration, the following study has been organized to inquire and analyze this issue in its multidimensional aspects. This study provides a practical and analytical approach into the local government system and studies its impact as well as its post-implementation performance through the research focused on Bahawalpur District
Caste System in the Sub-Continent: A comparative study
No full textCaste system has existed throughout the history around the world. This system dates 3000 years back and was found as a part of social order in ancient India. It isprevalent in Indian and Pakistani societies, it is practiced more in villages than in big urban cities, especially during the elections, social matters, marriages and in day-to-day interaction. The caste system influences on the political parties and elections processes. Having been around for centuries, caste system is unlikely to die out completely from Pakistani societal and political practices
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy in the post 9/11 Security Environment: Challenges and Options
No full textThe US led international coalition’s war on terror has not only altered the strategic dynamics of Afghanistan and then Iraq, it has also affected Pakistan immensely. Responding to the US call for help, Pakistan’s President Pervaiz Musharraf considering Pakistan’s strategic interests to the economic recovery, to ensure the security of its nuclear installations and to keep the Kashmir issue alive, agreed to extend full cooperation to the US. Therefore the post 9\11 international environment changed strategic dynamics of Pakistan’s security policy. Pakistan, once again, became a frontline state for the ongoing war against terror. By abandoning its Afghan policy, Pakistan managed to avoid being labeled as a country sponsoring terrorism but at the same time it created enormous internal and external challenges for Pakistan
Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Role of Pakistan
No full textThe most disturbing aspect of nuclear non-proliferation regime is how poorly it accomplishes its arms control and disarmament objectives. The recorded incidents of illicit nuclear trafficking marked the weaknesses of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards system and nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT). The clandestine nuclear weapons related activities of Iran, Libya and North Korea also prove their lack of commitment with their obligations to NPT. The sixth review conference of the NPT was held on May 2-27, 2005 in New York. Yet, the nuclearweapon states haven’t taken any step to carry out their own commitments under the Article VI of NPT to make good faith efforts toward nuclear disarmament. On April 14, 2005, positively, the United Nations General Assembly passed by consensus an accord—the Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. It would oblige member states to prosecute those who illegally possess atomic devices or radioactive materials.
Political Godfathers and Electoral Culture in Nigeria
No full textThis paper investigates the change from a progressive and benevolent electoral culture exhibited by the early godfathers to self-enrichment as exhibited by the contemporary godfathers in Nigeria. It examines the factors that make such culture possible and the strategies that can curb such act. Making use of primary and secondary sources of data, the study reveals that economic reasons, greed,impact of military rule, civilization and complexity of society are the factorsresponsible for the change from community interest to the culture of self enrichment through surrogates by the godfathers. It recommends thatgovernment should make the elective positions unattractive, lower the finances associated with electoral politics and give less consideration to the political godfathers in Nigerian politics
The Role of America in Crises Management: A Study of India- Pakistan Crises (2001-2019)
No full textThe enduring antagonism between Pakistan and India enlarged by thoughts of threat perception has spawned recurring crises. Because of the presence of misperceptions as well as miscalculations the possibility of an accidental clash between both nuclear powers was high. So, through the crisis management technique possible armed collision is controlled. The primary purpose of the study is to analyze the American mediation in the India Pakistan crises. The nature of the study is qualitative because qualitative research supports explaining comprehensively and helps interpretive objectives to understand the role of America in the India-Pakistan crises. The case study method is appliedfor the present study and the selected era is from 2001 to 2019. Being a review study descriptive, exploratory and historical approaches are applied to discover the answers of the research questions. This research would offer a guiding structure for studying third-party mediation in the management of the crisis. Consequently, an analysis of this research will support to discover several potential finding of the American involvement in crisis management to keep strategic stability and peace in the South Asian region. But, there is no assurance that the findings and conclusions of this crisis management case study are applied to other contexts or crises
His Islamic Political Views: A Critique
No full textGhulam Ahmed Parwez (1903-1986) is one of the distinguished religous writrs of Pakistan. He has producted over forty books and hundreds of articles. His writings cover almost every aspect of human life. He analyzed them in the light of Quranic injunctions. His interpretations of the quranic verses and the tradtions of the Holy Prophet are not traditional,. Therefore he is termed as he modernist. He has chalked out a political out a political program for the Islamic State. In this paper an attempt is made to throw liht his political vews and their significance in the society. 
PAKISTAN'S DEFENCE POLICY: IMPERATIVE AND RATIONALE OF MISSILES
No full textThe offensive missiles are one of Pakistan’s most important national security imperatives in the contemporary strategic environment. It has, therefore, taken steps to test and ready a variety of ballistic missiles for induction into its armed forces. The surface to surface Ghaurhl medium range and Shaheen»! short-range ballistic missiles were handed over to Pakistan Army’s Strategic Force Command for induction on January 9, 2003 and March 6, 2003, respectively. The Khan Research Laboratories and the National Defence Complex claimed that these missiles carry all types of warheads and are highly accurate
Salient Governance Issues and the Musharraf-Jamali Government: A case study of Pakistan
No full textGovernance, as defined by UNDP, is the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in the management of a country’s affairs. The term governance implies issues of government effectiveness, accountability, transparency, and adherence to the rule of law. Good governance involves the constructive interaction of state, market and civil society. it is also characterized by several important values: effectiveness and efficiency, accountability, the ruleof law, participation, consensus orientation, responsiveness, equity, and strategic vision. It is dependent on the wet! functioning of public institutions This brings us to the second question. How do public yinstitutions function well? Setting the right priorities, formulation of appropriate policies and their effective and efficient implementation is a basic requirement of a wet! functioning public institution. Achieving objectives of good governance requires a iong~term political commitment to make the system work. Accountability of the government for its actions is dependent upon the availability of information, transparency of decision—making and the presence of effective mechanisms to call individuals and institutions to account. Competence of the government is the capacity to formulate appropriate policies, make sound and timeiy decisions, and perhaps most importantiy implement them effectively. Public officials must be held responsible for their actions. This involveseffective auditing, decentraiization, accountability to consumers and a role for non— governmental organizations (NGOs)