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Will Muslim-Majority States Recognise the Afghan Taliban’s ‘Islamic’ Regime?

  • Associate Professor Matthew J. Nelson,

Security-conscious Muslim-majority states should pause before deciding to recognise it.

INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.

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.

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