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Pakistan should properly adopt Urdu as its national language to help overcome inequality

  • Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri,

Nations advance materially, economically and scientifically when they educate students in their national language.

Pakistan needs a multilingual education model to protect minority language groups

  • Ameer Ali and Professor Maya Khemlani David,

English and Urdu are dominant in Pakistan’s education system and other languages have been neglected or marginalised.

How religion, geography and demography shape Pakistan’s state, society and politics

  • Professor Riaz Hassan (Honorary),

Pakistan’s politics is shaped by weak political institutions and a strident relationship between government and military. But religion and other factors also play a significant role.

Pandemic politics in South Asia: Muslims and democracy

  • Associate Professor Matthew J. Nelson,

Leaders in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan may succeed in defeating COVID-19 only to discover they have killed their democracies in the process.

The Taliban develops regional relationships as it makes territorial gains in Afghanistan

  • Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Abbas Farasoo & Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh,

As the Taliban and Afghan government begin peace talks, the Taliban is on the diplomatic front foot.

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