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Click for Paperback Edition Ali Ibne Abi Talib on Leadership and Good Governance By Hassan Abbas and Benish Zahra Hassan (2013) 'The Service of Mankind Prepares a person for Leadership" - Ali Ibne Abi Talib This book is a collection of Imam Ali Ibne Abi Talib's policy statements on the role and responsibilities of political leadership for good governance. Important administrative policy

Mind the pitfalls on this road to peaceRADHA KUMAR, The Hindu, December 27, 2012Some proposals for an agreement with the Taliban could create misgivings in India as well as among opposition and civil society groups within AfghanistanAs we approach closer to 2014, negotiations with the Taliban are gaining importance over other tracks, such as reconciliation and regional relations. To some extent

COMMENT : Bashir Bilour: the lion slain — Dr Mohammad TaqiDaily Times, December 25, 2012Whether it was the bombings in Peshawar in the 1980s or the siege of the city’s Shia in 1992, Bashir Lala would always be on the frontlineThe Awami National Party (ANP) has lost one of its bravest leaders. Senior provincial minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bashir Ahmed Bilour was martyred this past

More Questions Than Answers at Intra-Afghan Meetingby Omar SAMAD, Tolo News, 22 December 2012 Dampening expectations, the two-day long intra-Afghan discussions held near Paris ended Friday with more questions than answers about the future of the peace and reconciliation process deemed critical for Afghanistan's stability and a successful transition process following the US and Nato military

The United States and South Asia After Afghanistan Asia Society, December 11, 2012 The Asia Society report, The United States and South Asia after Afghanistan, finds that a unique opportunity exists for the Obama administration to forge a more strategic, integrated, and successful policy toward South Asia. The report, written by Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Fellow Alexander Evans, offers

Why al-Qaeda finds no recruits in India  By Andrew North, BBC News, Mumbai and Delhi, December 7, 2012 Habiba Ismail Khan can't forget the day her eldest son ventured out to get food and water. Their Mumbai slum had been overcome by communal rioting, sparked by the destruction of the Babri Mosque by Hindu hardliners in faraway Ayodhya. This week marks the 20th anniversary of that event,

A Former Ambassador to Pakistan Speaks OutTara McKelveyThe Daily Beast, Nov 20, 2012 America’s former ambassador to Pakistan talks about his battle with the CIA over drones. Tara McKelvey reports. Cameron Munter, the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, looked suntanned, but not rested, as he sat in a Foggy Bottom bar a few blocks from the State Department on a fall evening. He placed an Islamabad

CFR 2013–2014 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Program   The Program: The Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship (SNSF) Program, made possible by a generous grant from the Stanton Foundation, offers younger scholars studying nuclear security issues the opportunity to spend a period of twelve months at the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) offices in New York or Washington, DC, conducting

Poor investigation bedevils police in India, Pakistan Both countries inherited the colonial system of using the police for suppressing dissent V. BALACHANDRAN, SUNDAY GUARDIAN, NOV 11, 2012 Prof Hassan Abbas of the US National Defense University, whose erudite writings on Pakistan police reforms have been discussed by me in these columns, has released a new report, "Stabilizing Pakistan through