Description
"Pakistan: 1992 is the inaugural volume of a prospective series of biennialassessments of contemporary events and issues in Pakistan affairs. In general,the series will cover issues relevant to Pakistan's domestic politics, foreignpolicy, and economy. This volume contains special chapters on the 1990elections, Islamization, health policy, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. Each ofthe contributors to this volume is a specialist on Pakistan, and each hashad recent research experience in the state relevant to their respective rontnbutions.Pakistan: 1992 is published in affiliation with the American Institute of PakistanStudies, a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization in its nineteenthyear of operation, which is dedicated to encouraging and supporting researchon issues relevant to Pakistan and the promotion of scholarly exchange betweenthe United States and Pakistan."
Table of Contents
Preface -- Map of South Asia -- Map of Pakistan -- 1 Dilemma and Challenge in Nawaz Sharirs Pakistan/Lawrence Ziring -- 2 The 1990 General Elections in Pakistan/William L. Richter -- 3 Economic Policy After Zia ui-Haq/Shahid Javed Burki -- 4 Judicial Activism and Islamization After Zia: Toward the Prohibition or Riba/Charles H. Kennedy -- 5 The Politicization or the Shias and the Development or the Tehrik·e-Niraze-Fiqh-e-Jararia in Pakistan/Afak Haydar -- 6 Healing Power and Medical Practice in Pakistani Society/Anne T. Sweetser -- 7 Pakistan and the Resolution or the Afghan Conflict/Marvin G. Weinbaum -- 8 Kashmir Conflict: The New Phase/Robert G. Wusing -- Chronology of Events: September 1988 - April 1992/Ata Khan -- Glossary -- About the Contributors --Index -- About the Book.
