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Infrastructure redux: crisis, progress in industrial Pakistan & beyond

Nausheen H. Anwar

Pakistan's economy is currently semi-industrialized, but it has the high potential for prosperity in the 21st century. The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power generation and distribution to roads and ports. It looks at how these material technologies underpin visions of progress and mediate relations between the state and capitalist firms in export-oriented industrial and industrializing districts in Punjab, Pakistan.

In this book infrastructure is understood as a material technology intimately tied to the shaping of modern-industrial society and as a sociotechnical system linked to the specific project of Pakistan's economic development. Like most postcolonial nation-states, the Pakistani state planned, provided and owned infrastructure, which in the aftermath of independence in 1947 was tied to a mode of rule while promising rapid material progress. But today the state is perceived as having failed to provide infrastructure and is disconnected from local-industrial contexts or superseded by the whims of powerful politicians. For industrialists, infrastructure's disruptions are perceived and experienced in two ways: first as literal technological collapse that carries high costs, breakdowns and immobility; and second as the loss of a moral order due to political interference.

The author argues that in the present conjuncture of an infrastructure crisis, the apparent absence of the state in the planning and provision of industrial infrastructure is somewhat deceptive. Although the state is not absent, its presence is reconfigured through a variety of firm-led initiatives to repair and rebuild infrastructures. Folded into patron-client frames, the ensuing state-firm relational engagements for building infrastructure reinvigorate the promise of progress.

Furthermore, the strategies of capitalist firms operate within a moral economy in which a pervasive narrative of national moral decline and uncertainty explains the disintegration of a specific type of public infrastructure: electricity. Straddling the disciplines of development economics, history and anthropology, this study will appeal to students, scholars and researchers interested in industrialization and globalization.
Esoteric-orientalist elements in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: the nexus of gothic and cultural studies

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

A significant work that directs readers to re-examine the classic texts and tropes of Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, Orientalist sub-fields of Cultural studies, and intriguing aspects of the Tarot in a postmodern context. The author directs students and scholars to examine neglected aspects of academia.
Islamic ethics of technology : an objectives (Maqasid) approach

Amana Raquib

This book approaches the question of technology from an Islamic ethical perspective. The book tries to broaden the scope of the Sharia to deal comprehensively with the ethical questions and dilemmas that arise in the midst of a postmodern technological culture due to the absence of well-defined religious-ethical ends. It looks at the maqasid as a universal ethical theory to be interpreted and applied in the global technological context. It weaves the contemporary philosophical analysis of technology within the maqasid discourse and assesses modern technology through the lens of the ultimate aims and purposes of the Sharia. It works out the relationship between the various objectives and how they can be developed into an Islamic ethics of technology. Following in the recent interest in the objectives of the Sharia, the book further expands the scope of the maqasid and carries it further to encompass metaphysical and ethical debates surrounding technology. Anyone interested in finding alternatives to the existing technological model will find this book valuable. Specifically those interested in Islam and Modern World and how ijtihad is being undertaken to tackle contemporary ethical problems will find this book helpful.
Explaining the major themes in English poetry: religion, nature, classics, romance, individual struggle, politics

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

The text focuses on six major themes often found in canonical English poetry. These include religion, nature, classics, romance, individual struggle, and politics. Using representative works of famous poets including, but not limited to, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Keats, Kipling and the Rossetti siblings, the book links poems on diverse and varied topics (such as the Virgin Mary, colonial India, and Tudor history) in order to illustrate the richness and complexity of the literary canon.

An impressive and compelling contribution to the study of poetry that will enchant students of literature and casual readers for years to come. Instead of using chronological division of works the author arranges the poems according to central themes in literature. The text’s main aim is to make challenging poems more approachable and accessible to young undergraduates.
Eighteenth-century influences on Jane Austen's early fiction

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

This text examines how the Gothic writing of Ann Radcliffe and the eighteenth-century novels of Fanny Barney helped to shape and hone Jane Austen’s own eighteenth century literary endeavors. It specifically focuses on Austen’s early works Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, and Sense and Sensibility, all of which were conceived and shaped during the last decade of the 1700’s. It closely follows the manner in which Austen eschewed the popular epistolary genre in favour of the novel-form, how she mastered the parodic-Gothic form, and created characters that while uniquely hers owed a great deal to the late-eighteenth century English milieu of which they have become major cultural elements.
Pakistan-India trade: what needs to be done? what does it matter?

Dr. Ishrat Husain, Amin Hashwani, Kalpana Kochhar, Ejaz Ghani, Michael Kugelman, Zafar Mahmood, Ijaz Nabi, Nisha Taneja, Arvind Virmani, Michael Kugelman [Editor], and Robert M. Hathaway [Editor]

After a period of warming ties in 2011 and 2012, Pakistan-India relations are off to a rough start in 2013 threatening to weaken the momentum for normalizing commercial ties between the two neighbors. A new Asia Program publication on Pakistan-India trade highlights the benefits and risks for both countries of a formal trade relationship, and examines what needs to be done to push the process.
Reforming the government in Pakistan

Ishrat Husain

Following its creation in 2006, the NCGR was tasked with producing an analysis and recommendations on how government, its institutions and infrastructure can become more effective to meet the social, economic and political challenges that Pakistan faces in the 21st century. This report produced by the commission after deliberations during these two years is comprehensive and covers the restructuring of Government at Federal, Provincial levels, strengthening of the district governments, reorganization of civil services, revamping of human resource management policies and practices, re engineering of business processes. These proposals summarize the findings from extensive research in the field and consultations conducted wit a wide range of stakeholders spanning the public and private sectors, particularly the Federal Secretaries committee and the Provincial Governments.
Non traditional sources of conflict in South Asia : a study of non traditional sources of conflict in South Asia which exacerbate existing conflicts

Huma Baqai

Conflict remains a South Asian reality with a unilateral focus on territorial security. Nonetheless, an attempt has been made in this book to look into the non-traditional sources of conflict in the region with a special focus on Pakistan and India. The thrust of this research is premised on two specifics. First, the non-traditional security paradigm is a consequence of the widening of security studies into different variants and a result of the world's quest for a sustainable peace in the post-Cold War era. Second, if the non-traditional causes of conflict are not managed, they will not only exacerbate existing conflicts but have the potential of growing into full-fledged conflicts. Peacemaking is a complex process. It is not just linked to the military lesions but is also inclusive of socio-political, economic, and cultural relations among states, and must aim at changing the threat perception of the protagonist. The people are aspiring for a durable peace and better living conditions. Economic, political, social and moral logic calls for it.
Explaining the canonical Poems of English literature

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

Nadya Q.Chishty-Mujahid’s Explaining the Canonical Poems of English Literature spans several centuries of English literature, by examining the canonical poetry of writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, Browning, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett, and D.H. Lawrence. Chishty-Mujahid demonstrates that however much we have studied these great poets, there is still room to elucidate on their magnitude. More importantly, Chishty-Mujahid reinvigorates the importance of these masterpieces by rejecting the postmodern argument that these authors are culturally dominant relics of the past. Rather, through her commentary she appeals to the undergraduate and graduate reader that while canonical poetry has undergone several mutations over the centuries those works continue to uplift the soul and remain the apex of literary expression.
Frontier of faith: a history of religious mobilisation in the Pakhtun tribal areas c. 1890-1950

Sana Haroon

Frontier of Faith examines the history of Islam-especially that of local mullas, or Muslim clerics-in the North-West Frontier (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa). A largely autonomous zone straddling the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Tribal Areas was established as a strategic buffer zone for British India, and the resulting autonomy allowed local mullas to assume roles of tremendous power. After Partition in 1947, the Tribal Areas maintained its status as an autonomous region, and for the next fifty years the mullas supported armed mobilizations in exchange for protection of their vested interests in regional freedom. Consequently, the Frontier has become the hinterland of successive, contradictory jihads in support of Pashtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Considering this territory is said to be the current hideout of Osama bin Laden, there couldn't be a better time for a sourcebook detailing the intricacies of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands today and the function of the mullas and their allies.
Prospects and challenges for increasing India-Pakistan trade

Dr. Ishrat Husain

In the face of massive economic challenges, a burgeoning population, energy and water shortages, and huge and growing numbers of unemployed workers, especially youth, Pakistan needs to look for ways to move itself out of the economic hole into which it has fallen. Greater trade with India offers an immediate and rich possibility of economic growth for both Pakistan and India. Recent meetings between the commerce ministers of both countries in New Delhi appear to have yielded some good intentions to increase trade from its current level of $2 billion a year to $6 billion, still well below what many scholars estimate to be the potential. Yet, the obstacles remain, in the form of rules and regulations that inhibit trade, and in the lack of private-sector initiatives that would surmount governmental foot dragging. In the end, it is the private sector—not offcial trade—that will boost incomes on both sides of the border. And the question remains: Will India and Pakistan see the advantage of opening borders as being mutually beneficial?
Virtual manufacturing

Wasim Ahmed Khan, Abdul Raouf, and Kai Cheng

Virtual Manufacturing presents a novel concept of combining human computer interfaces with virtual reality for discrete and continuous manufacturing systems. The authors address the relevant concepts of manufacturing engineering, virtual reality, and computer science and engineering, before embarking on a description of the methodology for building augmented reality for manufacturing processes and manufacturing systems.

Virtual Manufacturing is centered on the description of the development of augmented reality models for a range of processes based on CNC, PLC, SCADA, mechatronics and on embedded systems. Further discussions address the use of augmented reality for developing augmented reality models to control contemporary manufacturing systems and to acquire micro- and macro-level decision parameters for managers to boost profitability of their manufacturing systems.
An introduction to western esotericism: essays in the hidden meaning of literature, groups, and games

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

This work functions as an introductory text for those new to the discipline, but also presents more advanced-level studies of literary works that will appeal to a more specific critical audience. The interdisciplinary diversity of the work enhances the presentation of certain hitherto unexplored academic vistas of Western Esotericism. This book contains thirty black and white photographs.
Quality management in Pakistan's export oriented industries

Mahnaz Fatima

This book is a study of nine industrial sub-sectors that include readymade garments, leather garments, surgical instruments, and sports goods, and demonstrates how an industry can maintain its growth path independently of government incentives and protection through increased competitiveness based on quality, cost, and high responsiveness to changing customer needs and external environmental factors. It highlights the importance of quality management through scientific study.
A guide to business decision making

Abdul Rahim Suriya

The business and accounting world has become a lot more complicated as the accountants as well as users of the financial statements, in pursuance of their own objectives, are using accounting data for taking business decisions. Therefore, today's accountants are expected to be more proficient in business operations, as they are expected to add value to their entities by their ability to bring the right information to bear on a decision.

In this guide, the emphasis is on decisions that have a quantitative basis. However, it must be realized that regardless of the quantitative information available, the actual decision making process invariably also includes consideration of qualitative, psychological and social factors.
Character development in Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene

Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid

In her study of Spencer's ability to fuse topical and historical allegory to create characters who were both timely and timeless, Chishty-Mujahid (English, U. of North Alabama) focuses on Spencer's techniques of character development and of character functions. She argues that the strange, heroic and creepy characters who populate the Faerie Queen work to provide a vital framework for structuring the topical allegory and express the implications of the reader's moral development. Chishty-Mujahid demonstrates the ways that Spencer allegorizes important contemporary political events and subjects, such as Elizabethan perceptions of the Virgin Queen, the Catholicism and execution of Mary Stuart, the festering political discontent in Ireland, and the significance of Prince Arthur to Tudor propaganda.
Standards for engineering design and manufacturing

Wasim Ahmed Khan and Abdul Raouf

Most books on standardization describe the impact of ISO and related organizations on many industries. While this is great for managing an organization, it leaves unanswered questions such as "what are the effects of standards on my designs?" and "how can I use standardization to benefit my work?" Standards for Engineering Design and Manufacturing provides hands-on knowledge for incorporating standards into the entire process from design bench to factory floor.
Management accounting for financial services

Aman U. Saiyed

Management Accounting for Financial Services” is an expression of the desire to apply the knowledge acquired in the discipline of management accounting for decision making in banks and other financial institutions. The author brings twenty years of his experience of working overseas in the field of accounting profession, especially the management accounting, to bear upon his writing of the book. This is the first compilation of its kind in Pakistan that directs the principles and methodologies of management accounting specifically towards banking and financial industry.

The book comprises of 22 chapters. The first 17 chapters cover management accounting in theory and practice. They are roughly subdivided into cost concepts, management planning in performance evaluation and management accounting for decision-making. The remaining five chapters exclusively deal with using management accounting for decision making in financial service industry. Management today relies heavily on accounting information - reliable and fast – to make decisions. Today, majority of decisions are made on the basis of accounting information pertaining to costs that are of short and mid term duration. The book, therefore, starts with describing the nature of costs, their behavior and their business framework. Costing carries a special meaning in the business environment and the book shows its importance as a decision making tool. Recording and reporting costs i.e., job order costing and process costing are the two common methods of collecting costs. Both these methods are fully discussed in the first part of the book.
Key issues in Pakistan's economy

Ishrat Husain

Key issues in Pakistan's economy addresses issues related to the Financial sector, Economic Management and Policies, Poverty and Human development and Globalization.This book is a collection of papers, speeches & addresses delivered by Dr. Ishrat Husain, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan.
Current issues in Pakistan's economy

Ishrat Husain

This book is a compilation of papers, speeches and addresses delivered by Dr. Ishrat Husain, Governor State Bank of Pakistan on current issues in Pakistan's economy as of Finance, Growth, Poverty and Globalization.
Dollars, debts and deficits : reform and management of Pakistan's economy

Ishrat Husain

This volume consists of two parts. The first is a compilation of the author’s newspaper articles until 1999, and the second comprises his articles in his official capacity as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan.

The most interesting aspect of the book is the difference between the author’s approach as an outsider and critic before 1999, and his pragmatic approach later in view of the ground realities.

The challenge that faces Pakistan’s economic managers is to accelerate growth, invest in pro-poor and labour intensive activities, create employment opportunities and bring down the incidence of poverty. The next five years are therefore critical in the economic history of Pakistan if they bring about a paradigm shift from the old stop-go cycles to a more orderly and stable way of achieving equitable and sustainable growth for a majority of the population.

This book contributes significantly to the policy dialogue on the Pakistan economy and will be indispensable for policy makers, economists and historians.
Business in its broader perspective: an overview for visualizing business

Matin A. Khan

Dr. Matin's book on Business in its Broader Perspective is a useful introduction of business for the students of Pakistani business. Dr. Matin discusses business environment of our country, always showing the critical role of business in the life, welfare and progress of the country. It is an achievement for Dr. Martin as it marks almost 50 years of continuous research and publications. In his book Dr. Matin has highlighted the contribution of business. It is a very commendable effort at a time where there is inadequacy in research and publications in the field of business.
Economic management in Pakistan-1999-2002

Ishrat Husain

Pakistan has been faced with a serious financial crisis since May 1998. The new government, which assumed office in October 1999. embarked upon a serious programme of economic revival to get the country out of the debt trap. Policies pursued have begun to pay dividends and despite several shocks to the economy the country has been able to achieve stability. This book describes the process through which the economy was managed during 1999 - 2000.
Leading issues facing Pakistan economy

Ishrat Husain
Continuity and change: socio-political and institutional dynamics in Pakistan

S. Akbar Zaidi

This collection contains papers by most of Pakistan's best known social scientists and academics, all of whom have written on an issue of their own choosing. There are four broad themes in this collection. There are three papers, one each by Hamza Alavi, Ayesha Jalal and Mubarak Ali, which look at history and historical developments in the context of Pakistan.

Three papers, one by Muhammad Waseem and two by S. Akbar Zaidi, examine contemporary issues which deal specifically with political development in the country. The last theme of this volume examines social and institutional dynamics and change in the country.