Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies
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Community Learning Center Programs and Community Literacy Development in Asian and the Pacific Countries: Bangladesh, Iran, Vietnam and Pakistan as Case Studies
Get PDFLiteracy plays a key role in the process of development. Without literacy, a community  faces many challenges to improve its quality of life. For the reason, today countries have invested a lot to bring up their literacy level and  governments have formulated several CLD programs. One of the major programs that have been implemented for the purpose is the Community Learning Centers Program (CLCP). The program has been implemented to improve the level of literacy in Asian and the Pacific Countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of CLCP in CLD in Asian and the Pacific Countries. Because of the extension area of the CLCP, this paper will focus on the role of CLCP in CLD in four participating countries: the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Iran. Several resources have been used to collect the necessary data. The main information resources include: 1)     The existing documents 2)     Reports prepared by countries 3)     Correspondence (guidelines,practical announcements) 4)     Reports of the delegations visiting  the centers 5)     Researches and assessments in the host countrie
The Mediatization of Politics in Pakistan: A Structural Analysis
Get PDFLast two decades of twentieth century saw a development in media due to growing influence of privately-owned television channels. This TV era was so influential that society and politics in Western democracies became dependent on the media and its logic. This process was theorized as mediatization of politics and/or society. Though initially a western phenomenon, soon it started to diffuse in the developing world. Using mediatization as a key concept, this article presents a theoretical framework to analyze the media development in Pakistan. The unprecedented influence media exerted in political discourse of recent years reveals that Pakistani politics is going to be mediatized. As majority of studies on Pakistani media are of descriptive nature and only narrate the history of Pakistani media, this study tries to establish a structural framework in which media, its development, and transformation from an observer to an active player in political stage can be studied further
Gul Na Hoti Abi Ehsas Ki Shamah (Ú¯ÙÙ„ نه هوتی ابهی اØساس Ú©ÛŒ شمع)
No full textThis is a critique of intolerant practices of Taliban leaders in Swat, Pakistan published in Jinnah Daily on May 9, 2009
Reconciling Religion: Bulleh Shah, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Transcendentalist Tradition
Get PDFRalph Waldo Emerson has always been linked to the thoughts and writings of the Sufi poets of Persia and other parts of the Muslim world, as he expounded on the ideals of humankind, culture and our relationship with the natural world. In fact, his work has often been considered as a pioneering effort to help bridge the intellectual understanding gap between east and west. This inquiry takes a look at a singular Sufi poet, Bulleh Shah, whose work has previously been unrelated to Emerson’s, yet whose own ideals and thoughts, though composed a hundred years before Emerson, bear a strong parallel relationship to those held by Emerson, Thoreau, and the American Transcendental movement
