...Naveeda Khan Duke University Press 2006 Flaws in the Flow Roads and Their Modernit y in Pakistan The Inauguration Naveeda...

...Kamran Asdar Ali In contrast to various dominant representational themes through which Pakistan's history is rendered intelligible to many (Islam, Muslim nationalism), this essay particularly focuses on a debate surrounding the question of morality (“pure or perverse literature”) connected to short...

...Ananya Jahanara Kabir This essay examines the “Line of Control” (LOC) dividing the region of Jammu and Kashmir into two parts controlled by India and Pakistan, respectively. It does so to establish the LOC as a symptom and marker of what I term “cartographic irresolution.” Through theoretical...

... interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of domestic Black Muslims. Exploring how fantasies of the plastic reorientation of prisoners’ bodies and minds...

...Kamran Asdar Ali Duke University Press 2004 Abbas, Shemeem. 1993 . The power of English in Pakistan. World Englishes 12.2 : 147 -56. Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1989 . Zones of theory in the Arab world. Annual Review of Anthropology 18 : 267 -306. ____, ed. 1998 . Remaking women...

..., and strategies in Pakistan . Lahore: Shirkat Gah. Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF POSTMODERN CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, AND FUNDAMENTALISM The main question I...

...-­Leonard ∙ Nasreen’s Lajja and the Minority Man ­states of India and Pakistan, the latter comprising eastern and western wings. In 1971 (March – December), Pakistan’s eastern wing fought and won independence to become Bangladesh. And, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India...

... to Palestine and Back  John Collins 66 Flaws in the Flow: Roads and Their Modernity in Pakistan  Naveeda Khan 87 Contributors John Collins is associate professor of global studies at St. Lawrence Uni- versity. He...

... was tired of sitting around. It was time to do something,” recalled a community-based activist in Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan. As I listened to him recount his strategy, he next addressed his critics: “I know there are people who don’t agree, but we have to figure something out.” I had already heard numerous...

... accepts the technology as the final arbitrator of power and prestige. As countries attempt to respond to this global order by actively partici- pating in nuclearism, as India and Pakistan have done, they inescapably incur...

... Books, with Smitu Kothari), Pakistan’s Crises of State and Society (Mashal), and Pakistan’s Atomic Bomb and the Search for Security (Gautam). He is also a member of the Princeton Committee on Palestine and serves on the board of Faculty for Israel-Palestine Peace (www.ffipp.org), a national fac- ulty...

... had resulted in the creation of a new homeland for the Muslims of India by carving out the eastern and northwestern corners of the country, which came to be known as East and West Pakistan, respectively. Thus in the formation of Pakistan, Islam was allegedly the sole principle of nationhood...

..., an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that.”1 U.S. support for the Taliban, who received arms and financial assis- tance from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with the agreement of the United States, ended within a year. But the diplomat’s reference to Aramco—the American oil...

... of these periurban margins elucidate about contemporary urban life and its back spaces? The case of Pakistan exemplifies some of the dynamics that lead to the social and demographic shifts we highlight. In a recent review paper, Ali Cheema and Shandana Mohmand have argued that the rapid growth...

... widely consumed examples of the “oppressed Muslim woman” genre take place in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. (One can note a singular lack of interest on the part of the American reading public regarding Islam outside the Middle East and Central Asia, or the hot spots...

... of the print, of a tomb covered in stripes, or what appears to be an American flag. The “aftermath” of the durbar is not the national- ist narrative of Indian anticolonial resistance and the independence and partition of India and Pakistan. Instead, it is an alternate image of imperial violence...

... IN THE CONTE X T OF FA MILY RIGHTS I came to the United States from Pakistan in 1991 as a student. I had come Chandan Reddy to the United States because I had a thought that coming out as a gay man would be safer for me in this country. After graduating...

... ) here. This is no Kashmir or Northeast.” 7 The Indian and Bangladeshi states officially maintain that this is a “friendly” border in contradistinction to the region's more volatile and hostile India-Pakistan border. The officer's verdict on the truth of this place hinges on this distinguishing...

... in Contemporary Pakistan and Its U.S. Diaspora,” of which this essay is a part, and is working on a memoir, “Sahelian: Growing Up with Girlfriends, Pakistani-Style.” Samantha King is an assistant professor of physical education at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and researches the cultural...

... to the level of geopolitics as well. It is notable that Cartman did not wonder if Mr. Slave was an Afghan or an Iraqi. By naming Mr. Slave as a Pakistani, the show astutely points to an understated complexity in the war against terrorism—that of the liminal position of the nation of Pakistan. Since 9...