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DR. TARIQ RAHMAN

HEC Distinguished National Professor &

Professor Emeritus of Sociolinguistic History
National Institute of Pakistan Studies
Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad

Phone #: (92-51) 5595756 E-mail: drt_rahman@yahoo.com

Citizenship: PAKISTANI Date of Birth: February 4, 1949.
Fax #: (92-51) 5508246

EDUCATION
1991 University of Cambridge Certificate in Linguistics
1989 University of Strathclyde M.Litt in Linguistics
1985 University of Sheffield Ph.D in English
1982 University of Sheffield M.A in History & English Literature
1978 University of Peshawar M.A in Political Science (1st class;
1st-Gold Medalist)
1969 University of Peshawar B.A (1st Division)

HONOURS
Lifetime achievement award 2005 HEC - 2009
Best Research Article in 2005 HEC - 2009
Pride of Performance - 2004
Pitras Bukhari Award for a Book entitled Language - 1999
and Politics in Pakistan (Oxford UP, 1996) by the
Pakistan Academy of Letters [Best Research Work of
1996 in English]. Also awarded by the National Book
Foundation for Social Sciences.
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (USA) - 1995-96
Overseas Development Association Scholarship (UK) - 1988-89
British Council Scholarship (UK) - 1981 - 1985
Merit Scholarship in Matriculation - 1965-67
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EXPERIENCE

2010 Jun-Jul DAAD Visiting Research Fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

2010 April Professor Emeritus, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2010 Jan-Mar Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
2007 July Tenured Professor.
2007 June Director, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, QAU.
2004 Sept-June 2005 Quaid-i-Azam Scholar on Pakistan Studies, University of California, Berkeley
2004 Jan Distinguished National Professor for life
2003 Jan Quaid-i-Azam Professor, Chair on Quaid-i-Azam and Freedom Movement (NIPS),
Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad.
2002 Feb-Mar Visiting Professor at the Center of International Studies, University of Castellon,
Spain.
2000-2000 Sept-Oct Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, NIPS, QAU American Institute
of Pakistan Studies Lecturer at UT Austin, University of Pennsylvania, Michigan
at Ann Arbor and MIT.
1999 Sept-Oct Guest Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
1990-2000 Associate Professor of Pakistani linguistics, NIPS, QAU.
1996-1999 Research Adviser, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad
1992 Professor of Linguistics, University of Sana'a (Yemen).
1987-1990 Professor of English and Linguistics and Chairman of the Department, University
of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad.
1985-1987 Associate Professor of English literature, University of Peshawar.
1982 onwards Given talks, interviews, lectures, seminars on Radio, T.V and other fora.
1981-1985 British Council Research Scholar, University of Sheffield, U.K.
1979 onwards Contributing columns, articles, book reviews and short stories to English
newspapers.
1978-1981 University Grants Commission Research Fellow, University of Karachi, Dept. of
English.
1970-1978 Cadet and Officer in the Armoured Corps & Education Corps of the Pakistan
Army. (appointed adjutant, squadron commander etc)
HONORARY POSITIONS

2001 Member, Council of Social Sciences, Pakistan.

1996-1999 Visiting Fellow and Honorary Chief Editor, Sustainable Development Policy
Institute, Islamabad.
1996- Member Editorial Board for Pakistan, Yearbook in Linguistics, University of
Montreal, Canada.
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1994-1997 Member Federal Board of Film Censors, Islamabad.

1994- Member, English-Speaking Union, Pakistan.
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PUBLICATIONS

15 Books, 28 contributions to books, 91 articles and 16 book reviews in scholarly journals on literature
language, history, politics and education. [See Appendix A for details]. Weekly newspaper columns,
book reviews in newspapers, reports, occasional papers from organizations etc have been listed in
complete CV (www.tariqrahman.com).
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LIST OF RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

1. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS (Total 15)

Books based on research (total 7) are in bold letters.

(1) .1979. Poems of Adolescence Rawalpindi: Cezan Books.

(2) .1989. The Legacy and Other Short Stories New Delhi: Commonwealth Publishers.

(3) .1990. Pakistani English: The Linguistic Description of a Non-Native Variety of English
Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. 2nd Edition,
2010.

(4) .1991. A History of Pakistani Literature in English Lahore: Vanguard Books (Pvt) Ltd.

(5) .1991. Work and Other Stories Lahore: Sang-e-Meel.

(6) .1996. Language and Politics in Pakistan Karachi: Oxford University Press. Paperback
reprinted, 1998, 2000, 2003 & 2006. Indian edition by Orient Longman, Delhi, 2007.

(7) .1997. An Introduction to Linguistics Lahore: Vanguard Books (Pvt) Ltd.

(8) .1999. The Third Leg and Other Short Stories Lahore: Sang-e-Meel.

(9) .1999. Language, Education and Culture Karachi: Oxford University Press. Paperback
reprinted, 2000 & 2003.

(10) .2000. Unpleasant Essays: Education and Politics in Pakistan Lahore: Vanguard.

(11) .2002. Language, Ideology and Power: Language-Learning Among the Muslims of Pakistan
and North India Karachi: Oxford University Press. Revised edition published by
Orient Longman, Delhi, 16 Jan 2008.

(12) .2002. Selected Short Stories Islamabad: Al-Hamra Publishers.

(13) .2004. Denizens of Alien Worlds: A Study of Education, Inequality and Polarization in
Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004 Reprinted 2006), pp. 210

(14) .2004. Poems of Autumn Islamabad: Leo Books.

15 .2010. Language Policy, Identity and Religion: Aspects of the Civilization of the
Muslims of Pakistan and North India Islamabad: Chair on Quaid-i-Azam and
Freedom Movement, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam
University. 1st ed. January, 2nd ed. June 2010.
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2. EDITED AND COMPILED BOOKS

(1) .1995. (ed). Pakistani Sufi Poets Islamabad: Academy of Letters. [edited & introduced]

(2) .2004. Language and Education: Selected Documents 1870-2003 Islamabad: Chair on
Quaid-i-Azam and Freedom Movement, Quaie-i-Azam University

(3) CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS (Total 28)

Encyclopedia Articles are given in Bold. Contributions also published as journal
articles have been counted only once.

(1) .1988. `Teaching Literature: Prose', Teaching of English (Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open
University, pp.166-181. [This is a Unit of Distance Teaching for the B. Ed Course of the Open
University].

(2) ______ `The Appreciation of English Poetry', ibid, 183- 210. [As above it is a part of the course
for teachers who want to teach poetry].

(3) ______ `Punctuation, Comprehension and Precis-writing'.

(4) .1991. `Higher Education for the Future', Pakistan 2000 A.D .ed R. M Hussain (Islamabad:
Pakistan Futuristics Institute), 205-214.

(5) `English Bibliography 1993', in Kitabiat Pakistani Adab 1993 [Urdu/English: Bibliography:
Pakistani Literature] (Islamabad: Academy of Letters, 1994), pp. 221-238.

(6) `Introduction' to The Sufi Poets of Pakistan with brief biographical notes on the poets, Islamabad:
The Pakistan Academy of Letters, 1995.

(7) The following entries in Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English Vols 1 and 2:
a. Hanif Kureishi, Vol 1, pp. 788-789.
b. Life Writing, Vol 1, pp. 875-877.
c. Short Fiction, Vol 2, pp.1474-1476.

(8) `Language, Ethnicity and Security', Chapter in Rethinking Security, Rethinking Development (ed)
Nauman Naqvi Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 1996. pp. 188-196. Also in
Text in Education and Society (eds) Allisen, Desmond et. al (Singapore: Singapore University
Press, 1999, pp. 238-245). [Paper presented at a conference in the National University of
Singapore, September, 1996].

(9) .1997. `Introduction' to Daud Kamal : A Selection of Verse Karachi: Oxford University Press.

(10) ‘West Pakistani Percetions of the Bengali Language Movement’. In Riaz Ahmed Led), Pakistan
Scholars on Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Islamabad: Quaid-i-Azam Lhair (NIPSI,
1999), pp. 232-248. [Revised vision in Ahmed Salim ed It is My Mother’s Face: Selected
Readings on Bengali Language Movement (Lahore: Sangh, 2006), pp. 219-236).

(11) 2000.’Pakistani Universities: Past, Present and Future’. Chapter 11 in Inayatullah, Sohail and
Gidley, Jennifer (eds), The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of
the University (Westport, Connecticut. London: Bergin & Garvey, 2000), pp 125-136.
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(12) 2000. ‘Langues et enseignement’. Chapter 12 in Jaffrelot, Christophe (ed), Le Pakistan (Paris:
Librarie Artheme Fayard, 2000), pp. 423-4[Trans. from English by the editor].

(13) 2001. ‘Language, Knowledge and Inequality’. Chapter 13 in Abbi, Anvita; Gupta R. S; Kidwai,
Ayesha (eds), Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia (Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidas, 2001), 185-196 [8th Roundtable of South Asian Language Analysis, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, 4-6 January 1997].

(14) ‘Introduction’ to Tales of the Punjab Told by the People (1894). Edited by Flora Annie Steel.
Karachi: Oxford University, 2002, pp. ix-xvii.

(15) ‘The Language of the Salariat’, Chapter 4 of The Post-Colonial State and Social Transformation
in India and Pakistan. Edited by. S.M Naseem and Khalid Nadvi. Karachi: Oxford University
Press, 2002. pp. 97-128.

(16) ‘English Teaching Institutions in Pakistan’. Chapter 3 of Language Policy Planning and Practice:
A South Asian Perspective Ed. Sabiha Mansoor, Shaheen |Meraj and Aliya Tahir. Karachi: OUP,
2004.

(17) ‘Education in Pakistan: A Survey’. (ed) Craig Baxter Pakistan on the Brink: Politics, Economics
and Society London, Boulder, Toronto and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2004. pp. 171-190.

(18) ‘Language, Power and Ideology in Pakistan’, Kukreja, Veena and Singh, M.P (eds). Pakistan:
Democracy, Development and Security Issues. (New Delhi and London: Sage, 2005), pp. 108-
122.

(19) ‘Reasons for rage: reflections on the education system of Pakistan with special reference to
English’ Hathaway, Robert M. (ed), Education Reform in Pakistan: Building for the Future
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005. pp. 87-106. Revised
version as ‘The Politics of Knowledge: Language, Education and the Potential for Violence in
Pakistan’ Rahman, Tariq Education Under Globalization: The Case of Pakistan Islamabad:
Actionaid, 2006. pp. 48-64. A smaller version in Saeed Shafqat (ed) New Perspectives on
Pakistan: Visions for the future (OUP 2007), pp. 122-151. Also published as ‘The Educational
Caste System: A Survey of Schooling and Polarization in Pakistan’ Chapter 10 in Globalization,
Modernization and Education in Muslim Countries (ed) Rukhsana, Zia (New York: Nova Science
Publishers, Inc. 2006) pp. 151-163.

(20) ‘Islamic/Muslim Languages in South Asia’, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd
edition. (ed) Vol 8, Entry 4218, p 409. Keith Brown, Oxford: Elsevier, 2006.

(21) ‘Ahmed Ali (1908-1994), pp. 15-19 and ‘Taufiq Rafat (1927-1998), pp. 281-284 Entries in
Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 323, South Asian Writing in English London: Bruccoli
Clark Layman Book, Thomson Gale, 2006.

(22) ‘Language Policy, Multilingualism and Language Vitality in Pakistan’. In Trends in Linguistics:
Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia-Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of
Information Technology (eds) Saxena, Anju and Borin, Lars (Berlin and New York: Mouton de
Gruyter, 2006), pp. 73-104.

(23) ‘The Role of English in Pakistan with Special Reference to Tolerance and Militancy’. In Tsui,
Amy B. M. and Tollefson, James W (eds), Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian
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Contexts (London and New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2007), Chapter 12,
pp. 219-239.

(24) ‘Language Policy in Pakistan’ In Encyclopedia of Language and Education second edition
(eds) Stephen May and Nancy H. Hornberger New York: Springer, pp. 383-392.

(25) ‘Madrasas: The Potential for Violence in Pakistan?’ in Jamal Malik (ed) Madrasa in South Asia:
Teaching Terror? (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 61-84.

(26) ‘Abd al-Haqq Baba-yi Urdu’, Encyclopedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. Revised 2009 edition.

(27) ‘The History of Arabic in South Asia’, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and
Linguistics Gen .ed. KEES VERSTEEGH Vol-III (London: Brill, 2008), pp. 506-512.

(28) ‘Language Problems and Politics in Pakistan’. In Handbook of South Asian Politics,
Edited by Paul Brass Oxford: Routledge, 2010.
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3. Journal Articles (91)

Articles in anonymously refereed journals which are indexed and abstracted, are in bold
type. The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) has categorized them as W,
X, Y and Z. The list below is arranged according to this order. The names of the indexes
are in square brackets. Indexes are abbreviated in an intelligible manner. Some
abbreviations, which would be otherwise unintelligible, are given below:

ABC Pol. Sc A Bibliography of Contents: Political Science and Government.

AHCI Arts & Humanities Citation Index
AICP Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Library of the
Museum of Mankind
ASCA Automatic Subject Citation Alert (now Research Alert)
ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Chic. Per. Ind Chicano Periodicals Index (now called Chicano Index)
CIJE Current Index to Journals in Education
Cont. Pg. Educ Contents Pages in Education
E.I Excerpta Indonesica
IBRWL International Bibliographic Der Rezensionen Wissenshaftlicher
Literatur
IBSS International Bibliography of Social Sciences
IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes–und
Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften Literatur
ICSSR Indian Council of Social Science Research
IDA International Development Abstracts
MLA Modern Language Association Index
MLA. Int Modern Language Association International Bibliography of
Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures.
PAIS Public Affairs Information Service
PCI Periodicals Contents Index
PI Periodica Islamica
SOPODA Social Planning Contents Index
Sp. Ed. Needs. Abstr Special Education Needs Abstract
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HEC CATEGORY ‘W’

(Peer-reviewed, indexed journals with impact factor from industrially advanced countries: USA, UK and
Europe with indices given in brackets. The impact factors of previous five years average is given in
square brackets).

1. ‘Eplebophilia and the Creation of a Spiritual Myth in the Works of Ralph Nicholas
Chubb’, Journal of Homosexuality [New York] Vol-20: Nos. ½ (1990), pp. 103-127
[Abstracts in Anthropology, Applied Social Science Index: Bio Sciences Information
Services of Biological Abstracts; Chicago Psychoanalytic Literature Index: Criminal
Justice Abstracts: Criminology and Penology Abstracts: Curr. Cont; Index Medicus;
Political Science Abstracts; Soc. Sc. Cit. Ind; Social Work Research; Sociological
Abstracts; Studies on Women Abstracts]. [Impact factor 0.752]

2. `Language and Politics in a Pakistan Province: The Sindhi Language Movement'

Asian Survey [University of California, Berkeley] 35: 11 (November 1995), 1005-
1016. [Anthro; Acad. Ind; Amer. Bibliog. Slavic and E. Eur. St; Amer; Hist & Life; Curr
Cont; E.I; Geo. Abstr; Hist. Abstr; Soc. Sc. Ind; Sociol. Abstr; PAIS]. [Impact factor
0.446]

3. `Language of the Proto-Historic Indus Valley', The Mankind Quarterly [USA] 36:
Nos. 3 & 4(Spring/Summer 1996), 221-246. [A.I.C. P; Abstr. Anthro; Amer: Hist &
Life, Lang & Lang. Behav. Abstr; MLA]. [Impact factor 0.269]

4. The Urdu-English Controversy in Pakistan', Modern Asian Studies [Cambridge,

UK] 31: 1 (1997), 177-207. [A.B.C. Pol Sc; Amer. Hist & Life; Curr. Cont; E.I; Hist.
Abstr; Rural Recreat. Tour Abstr; Soc. Sc. Ind; Soc. Sc. Cit. Ind; World Agri. Econ &
Rural Socio. Abstr]. [Impact factor 0.438]

5. ‘Language and Ethnicity in Pakistan’, Asian Survey [USA] Vol. XXXVII, No. 9
(September 1997), 833-839. [ABC Pol Sc;Abstr. Anthro; Acad. Ind; Amer. Bibl. Slavic
& E. Eur. St; Amer: Hist & Life; Curr. Cont; E.I; Geo. Abstr; Hist. Abstr; Soc. Sc. Ind;
Social. Abstr; PAIS]. [Impact factor 0.446]

6. ‘Transforming the Colonial Legacy: the Future of the Pakistani University’,

Futures, [U.K] Vol.30:No. 7 (1998), 669-680. [Communication Abstr; PAIS; Sociol.
Abstr; Soc. Sc. Abstr; ABC Pol Sc; ABI/Inform; Coal Abstracts; Environment Abstr;
Envirofiche Educational Admin Abstr; Pol. Sc. Abstr; Periodica Islamica; Future Survey;
Management Contents; Reference Sources]. [Impact factor 1.080]

7. ‘Language Ideology, Identity and the commodification of Language in the Call

Centers of Pakistan’, Language in Society, [Cambridge University Press UK, USA]
(2009), pp. 233-228. [Impact factor 1.210]

Total impact factor of above journal articles: 4.641

Total impact factor including book reviews/ review articles: 9.621
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HEC CATEGORY ‘X’

(Peer-reviewed, indexed journals from industrially advanced countries: USA, UK, Europe, Australia and
Japan with indices given in brackets. Without impact factor)

8.1 `The Homosexual Aspect of Forster's A Passage to India', Studies in English

Literature [Tokyo] (Mar, 1984), pp.37-54. [Amer: Hist & Life; bib. Eng. Lang & Lit;
Current Contents; MLA; MLA. Int].

9.2 `Edward Carpenter and D. H. Lawrence', American Notes & Queries [University of
Kentucky USA] (Sept-Oct, 1985), pp.18- 20. [Abstr. Eng. St; Abstracts of Folklore
Studies; Review of Book Reviews; Book Review Index; The Year’s Work in English].

10.3 `E. M. Forster and Ghalib', American Notes & Queries [USA] (Jan- Feb, 1985), pp.
80-81. [Abstr. Eng. St; Abstr. Folklore St; Bk. Rev. Ind; Yr. Wrk. Eng.].

11.4 ‘Edward Carpenter's From Adam's Peak to Elephanta as a Source of E. M. Forster's

A Passage to India’, Forum for Modern Language Studies [University of St. Andrews,
U.K] 22: 1 (Jan, 1986), pp.10-15. [Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind; Can. Rev. Comp. Cit; Curr. Cont;
Mid.East: Abstracts & Index; MLA].

12.5 ‘Edward Carpenter and E. M. Forster’, Durham University Journal [England] (Dec,
1986), pp.59-69. [Abstr. Eng. St; America: History and Life; Arts. Hum Cit Ind; British
Archaeological Abstracts; British Humanities Index; Curr. Cont; Historical Abstracts;
Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum; MLA; Mid East; Abstr & Ind].

13.6 `The Use of the Millenarian Myth in E. M. Forster's Howards End', Studies in
English Literature [Tokyo] (Mar, 1987), pp.33-60. [Abstr. Eng. St; Acad. Ind; Arts.
Hum. Cit. Ind; Biog. Index: Curr. Cont; Hum. Ind; MLA].

14.7 `E. M. Forster's Breakaway From the Ephebophilic Literary Tradition', Etudes
Anglaises [Paris] 3 (July-Sep, 1987), pp.267-278. [Abstr. Eng. St; Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind;
Curr. Cont; Ind. Rev. Hum; MLA].

15.8 `The Literary Treatment of Indian Themes in the Works of Edward Carpenter',
Durham University Journal [UK] 53: 1 (Dec, 1987), pp.77-81. [Abstr. Eng. St; Amer:
Hist. & Life; Arts. Hum Cit Ind; Br. Arch. Abstr; Br. Hum. Ind; Curr. Cont; Hist. Abstr;
Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum; MLA; Mid East: Abstr & Ind].

16.9 `A Study of the Under Plot in E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread', Studies
in English Literature [Tokyo] (Mar-Apr, 1988), pp.97-105. [Abstr. Eng. St; Acad. Ind;
Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind; Biog. Index: Curr. Cont; Hum. Ind; MLA].

17.10 `The Significance of Oriental Poetry in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India', Durham

University Journal (Dec, 1988), pp.101-110. [Abstr. Eng. St; Amer: Hist. & Life; Arts.
Hum Cit Ind; Br. Arch. Abstr; Br. Hum. Ind; Curr. Cont; Hist. Abstr; Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum;
MLA; Mid East: Abstr & Ind].
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18.11 `Zulfikar Ghose and the Land of His Birth', Review of Contemporary Fiction
[University of New Mexico] 9: 2(Summer, 1989), pp.179-187. [American Humanities
Index; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature; Int Bibliography of Book
Reviews; MLA; Bk. Rev. Ind; Abstr. Eng. St].

19.12 `Boy love in the Urdu Ghazal' Annual of Urdu Studies, [Chicago University, USA]
(1990) pp. 1-20]. [Periodica Islamica; MLA; MLA int. Bib; IBZ; IBRWL].

20.13 `A Study of E. M. Forster's Maurice', Durham University Journal [UK] 51: 1 (Jan,
1990), pp. 81-87. [Abstr. Eng. St; Amer: Hist. & Life; Arts. Hum Cit Ind; Br. Arch.
Abstr; Br. Hum. Ind; Curr. Cont; Hist. Abstr; Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum; MLA; Mid East: Abstr
& Ind].

21.14 `Maurice and the Longest Journey', Studies in English Literature [Tokyo] (Mar,
1990), pp.57-75. [Amer: Hist & Life; bib. Eng. Lang & Lit; Current Contents; MLA;
MLA. Int].

22.15 `A Short History of the Pakistani Novel in English', Commonwealth Novel in English
3: 2 (Fall 1990), 143-159. [Abstr. Eng. St; MLA].

23.16 ‘Linguistic Deviation as a Stylistic Device in Pakistani English Fiction’, Journal of

Commonwealth Literature (UK), 25: 1 (1990) pp. 1-11. [Abstr. Eng. St; Arts. Hum Cit
Ind; Br. Hum. Ind; Can. Lit Ind; Curr. Cont; Africa; Hum. Ind; MLA; So. Pac. Per. Ind].

24.17 `Politics in the Novels of Salman Rushdie', The Commonwealth Review [New Delhi]
1: 2 (1990), pp.102-117. Also in Commonwealth Novel in English 4: 1 (Spring 1991),
24-37. [Abstr. Eng. St; MLA].

25.18 `The Under Plot in E. M. Forster's The Longest Journey', Durham University
Journal [UK] 52: 1 (Jan, 1991), pp.59-67. [Abstr. Eng. St; Amer: Hist. & Life; Arts.
Hum Cit Ind; Br. Arch. Abstr; Br. Hum. Ind; Curr. Cont; Hist. Abstr; Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum;
MLA; Mid East: Abstr & Ind].

26.19 `Syed Ross Masood and A Passage to India', American Notes and Queries [University
of Kentucky, USA] 4: 2 (April, 1991), pp.78-81. [Abstr. Eng. St; Abstr. Folklore St;
RBR; Bk. Rev. Ind; Yr. Wrk. Eng.].

27.20 `The Double plot in E. M. Forster's A Room With a View', Cahiers Victoriens et
Edouardiens [France] 33 (1991), 43- 62. [Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind; Curr. Cont; MLA]

28.21 `The Use of Words in Pakistani English', English Today (Cambridge, UK) 7: 2 (Apr
1991), pp. 32-38. [Language Teaching; Linguistics Abstracts]

29.22 `The Phonetic and Phonological Features of Pakistani English', World Englishes
(Oxford; U.K), 10: 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 83-95. [Bibl. Eng. Lang & Lit; Br. Educ. Ind;
C.I.JE; Cont. Pg. Educ; Lang & Lang. Behav. Abstr; Lang. Teach & Ling. Abstr; Ling.
Abstr; MLA; MLA. Int; Mult. Ed. Abstr. Sociol. Abstr; SOPODA].
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30.23 `Critical Prejudices to Aspects of Partition Literature: Universal Versus

Ethnocentric Values', The Toronto South Asian Review [Canada] 11: 1 (Summer
1992), 69-78. [Canadian Literary Index].
31.24 `The Siraiki Language Movement in Pakistan, Language Planning and Language
Problems 19: 1 (February 1995) [New York & Berlin] [MLA; Socio. Abstr; Int. Pol. Sc.
Abstr.; Amer. Bibl. Slavic & E. Eur. Stud; CIJE; Cont. Pg: Educ; Lang. Teach & Ling.
Abstr; Mult. Ed. Abstr; SOPODA].

32.25 `The Pashto Language Movement in Pakistan', Contemporary South Asia [UK] 4:2
(July 1995), 151-170. [Bibliography of Asian Studies; Geo. Abstr. A.G; IDA; Int. Pol.
Sc. Abstr; PAIS; Per. Islam; Pol. Sc. Abstr; Rural. Dev. Abstr; Stud. Wom. Abstr; World
Ag. Econ & Rural. Soc. Abstr].

33.26 `British Language Policies and Imperialism in India', Language Problems and
Language Planning [UK] 20: 2 (Summer 1996), 91-115. [MLA; Socio. Abstr; Int. Pol.
Sc. Abstr.; Amer. Bibl. Slavic & E. Eur. Stud; CIJE; Cont. Pg: Educ; Lang. Teach &
Ling. Abstr; Mult. Ed. Abstr; SOPODA].

34.27 `The Balochi/Brahvi Language Movements in Pakistan' Journal of South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies 19: 3 (Spring 1996), 71-88. [Hist. Abstr; Amer: Hist. & Life].

35.28 `The Punjabi Language Movement in Pakistan', The International Journal of the
Sociology of Language. [Germany] 122 (1996). [Also see http://www.apna.org.com/
articles/rahman 2.html] [ASCA, Bibliographie Linguistique; Curr. Cont; Lang. Teach;
Ling. Abstr; Lang. & Lang. Behav. Abstr; Soc. Sc. Cit. Ind; Socio. Abstr; Int Bibliog.

36.29 `The Medium of Instruction Controversy in Pakistan' [U.K] Journal of Multilingual

and Multicultural Development Vol. 18:2, 1997, 145-154. [C.I.J.E; Chic. Per. Ind; Cont.
Pg. Educ; Lang & Lang.

37.30 `Linguistics in Pakistan [Canada]: A Country Report', in The Yearbook of South Asian
Languages & Linguistics (ed) Rajindra Singh (Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998), 184-196. 1-
33.

38.31 ‘The Politics of Urdu in India’, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
[USA] XXII: 2 (Winter 1999), 38-60. [Hist. Abstr; Amer: Hist & Life].

39.32 ‘The Decline of Persian in British India’, South Asia [Australia] Vol. XXII, No. 1
(1999) 63-77. [Arts & Hum. Cit. Index; Hist. Abstr; Research Alert; Curr. Cont;
Periodica Islamica].

40.33 ‘The Teaching of Urdu in British India’, The Annual of Urdu Studies, [USA] Number
15 part 1, (2000), 31-56. [Per. Islam; Bib. Asian. St; IBZ; MLA; MLA. Int.; IBRWL]

41.34 ‘The Language of Employment: The Case of Pakistan’, Journal of South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies [USA] Vol. XXIII, No. 4 (Summer 2000) pp. 62-87. [Hist.
Abstr; Amer: Hist & Life].
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42.35 `Language-Teaching and World View in Urdu Medium Schools in Pakistan', The Year Book
of South Asian Languages and Linguistics [Canada] 2000, pp. 173-184.

43.36 ‘The Teaching of Arabic to the Muslims of South Asia’, Islamic Studies [Islamabad,
Pakistan] Vol. 39: No. 3 (Autumn 2000), pp. 399-443 [Index Islamicus; Middle East
Journal].

44.37 ‘The Learning of Balochi and Brahvi in Pakistan; Journal of South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies [USA] Vol. 24: No. 4 (Summer 2001), 45-59. [Hist. Abstr;
Amer: Hist & Life].

45.38 ‘The Project of Respectability: Changes in Language Textbooks in British India’,

South Asia [Australia] Vol. 24, No. 2 (2001), 29-51 December 2001. [Arts & Hum.Cit.
Ind; Hist. Abstr; Res. Alert; Curr. Cont; Per Islam].

46.39 ‘Islamic Texts in the Indigenous Languages of Pakistan’, Islamic Studies [Pakistan]
Vol. 40: No. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 25-48 [Ind. Islam; Mid. East. Jnl].

47.40 ‘Language Learning and Power: A Theoretical Approach’, International Journal of

the Sociology of Language [Germany] 152 (2001), 1-22 [ASCA; Bibl. Ling; Curr. Cont;
Lang. Teach; Ling. Abstr; Lang & Lang. Behav. Abstr; Soc. Sc. Cit. Ind; Socio. Abstr;
Int. Bibliog. Soc. Sc].

48.41 ‘The Learning of Pashto in North India and Pakistan: A Historical Account’
Journal of Asian History [USA] 35 /2 (2001), 158-187. [Hist. Abstr; Amer: Hist & life].

49.42 ‘English-Teaching Institutions in Pakistan’, Journal of Multilingual and

Multicultural Development [UK] 22: 3 (2001), 242-261. CIJE; Chic. Per. Ind; Cont. Pg.
Ed; Lang. & Lang. Behav. Abstr; Lang. Teach; Ling. Abstr; MLA; Sp. Ed. Needs. Abstr].

50.43 ‘The Learning of Punjabi by Punjabi Muslims: A Historical Account’, International

Journal of Punjab Studies [UK] Vol. 8: No. 2 (July-Dec 2001), pp. 187-224. (also on
www.apna. org). [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr; Hist. Abstr; Amer. Hist & Life; Int. Bibliog. Soc. Sc;
Indian Ed. Abstr].

51.44 ‘Government Policies and the Politics of the Teaching of Urdu in Pakistan’, Annual
of Urdu Studies [USA] No 17 (2002), pp. 95-124. [Per. Islam; Bib. Asian. St; IBZ;
MLA; MLA. Int. Bib; IBRWL].

52.45 ‘Language, Power and Ideology’ , Economic and Political Weekly [Mumbai] Vol
XXXVII: No 44 & 45 (November 2002) pp 4556-4560. Also on internet published
electronically in Canada. (www.teluq.uquebec.ca/diverseiteentree.htm) Another
version called ‘Language-Teaching and Power in Pakistan’, Indian Social Science
Review Vol.5: No.1 (Jan-Jun 2003), 45-61. [Bibliography of Asian Studies; ICSSR].
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53.46. ‘Denizens of Alien Worlds: a survey of Students and Teachers at Pakistan’s Urdu
and English language-medium schools, and madrassa’, Contemporary South Asia 13
(3), (September 2004) 327-346. [Indexed as given on number 30].

54.47 ‘The Muslim Response to English in South Asia: With Special Reference to
Inequality, Intolerance and Militancy in Pakistan’, Journal of Language, Identity
and Education 4:2 (2005), 119-135. [Linguistics and language Behavior Abstracts;
Communication Abstracts; Education research Abstracts; ERIC Current Index to Journals
in Education Research Abstracts; Contents Pages in Education; PsycINFO/Psychological
Abstracts; EBSCOhost products].

55.48 ‘Urdu as an Islamic Language’, Annual of Urdu Studies Vol. 21 (2006), 101-119.
[Per. Islam; Bib. Asian. St; IBZ; MLA; MLA. Int. Bib; IBRWL].

56.49 ‘Urdu in Hyderabad State’, Annual of Urdu Studies, [University of Wisconsin-

Madison, USA] Vol. 23(2008), pp. 36-54

57.50 ‘Munazarah Literature in Urdu: An Extra-curricular Educational Input in

Pakistan’s Religious Education’, Islamic Studies 47:2 (2008), 197-220 [Science of
Religion, Index Islamicus, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS); International
Bibliographie der Rezensionen (IBR); Muslim World Book Review; Middle East Journal,
American Theological Library Association (ALTA); Religion Index one]

58.51 The Events of 1857 in Contemporary writings in Urdu’, South Asia: Journal of
South Asian Studies. [Australia], (2009) Vol. 32 No. 2 pp. 212-229

59.52 ‘The language of love: a Study of the Amorous and Erotic Associations of Urdu’, Cracow
Indological Studies [Poland] Vol. 11 pp. 29-65.

HEC CATEGORY ‘Y’

Indexed, abstracted, refereed and reviewed by at least one referee from an industrially advanced
countries. Journals published outside Pakistan are in bold.

60.1 `The Priest of Hate: Alienation in D. H. Lawrence', Literary Half-Yarly [India] (Jan,
1984), pp.81-105. [Abstracts of English Studies; MLA]
61.2 `Stereotypes in the Fiction of Angus Wilson', Journal of Comparative Literature and
Aesthetics [India] 8: 1-2 (1985), pp.91-107. [MLA]

62.3 `The Use of the Double Plot in E. M. Forster's "Ralph and Tony"', The Literary
Endeavour [India] 9: 1-4 (1987-88), pp.49-59. [MLA].

63.4 `Pakistani English Poetry: A Survey', Journal of Indian Writing in English [India]
16: 2 (Jul, 1988), pp.27-44. [MLA]
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64.5 `Pakistan: Introduction', Frank: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art
[France] 10 (Autumn, 1988), pp.101-110.
65.6 `The Kashmir Problem: A brief survey ', Pakistan Journal of History and Culture. Vol. 11:2
(July-December, 1990), pp. 1-8.

66.7 ‘Language Policy in Pakistan', Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] 14: 1 (January
1996), 73-98. [Int Pol Sc Abstr; Socio. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR Int of Abstr and Rev].

67.8 ‘Language Policy in Pakistan; Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] Vol 14: No. 1 (Jan
1996) pp. 73-97. [Int Pol SC Abstr; Socio. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR].

68.9 ‘Cultural Imperialism and the Pragmatics of Urdu in Pakistan’, PILC Journal of Dravidic
Studies [India] 7: 2 (July 1997), 181-199.

69.10 ‘Language, Religion and Identity in Pakistan : Language-Teaching in Pakistani

Madrassas’, Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] XVI: 2 (July 1998), 197-213. [Int.Pol.
Sc. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR].

70.11 ‘Language, Politics and Power in Pakistan : The Case of Sindh and Sindhi’, Ethnic
Studies Report [Sri Lanka] Vol. XVII; No. 1 (January 1999), 21-43. [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr;
PAIS; ICSSR].
71.12 `Language, Knowledge and Inequality', PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies, [India] Volume
9:2, July 1999, 145-152.
72.13 ‘Foreign Languages and National Imperatives in Pakistan’ Ethnic Studies Report
[Sri Lanka] Vol. 19. No.1 (January 2001) 39-67. [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr; Socio. Abstr;
PAIS; ICSSR].

73.14 ‘Passports to Privilege: The English-medium Schools in Pakistan’, Peace and Democracy in
South Asia Vol. 1: 1 (January 2005), 24-44. Accessible at www.pdsajournal.com

74.15 ‘The British Learning of Hindustani’, Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of
South Asia [Delhi] Vol. 2 No. 1(Jan-June, 2008), 46-73.

75.16 `The Urdu-Hindi Controversy', Pak Journal of History & Culture Vol. XV: No.2 (Jul-
Dec 1994), 19-45.
76.17 `The Bengali Language Movement', Pakistan Journal of History and Culture 16: 2
(July- Dec 1995), 1-32.

77.18 ‘Images of the “Other” in Pakistani Textbooks’, Pakistan Perspectives Vol. 7: No. 2
(Jul-Dec 2002), 33-49.
78.19 ‘Education Policies in Pakistan’, Pakistan Perspectives Vol. 9: No. 1 (Jan-Jun 2004),
pp. 90.

79.20 ‘The First Book of Old Urdu in the Pashto – Speaking Areas’, Pakistan Journal of
History & Culture. Vol. 29 No. 2 (Jul-Dec 2008), pp. 153-165.

HEC CATEGORY ‘Z’

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Not abstracted or indexed. Acceptable by the HEC till June 2008 only.

80.1 `Noah Webster and American English: Political Aspects of Linguistic Changes', Pakistan
Journal of American Studies Vol. II No.2 (Fall 1993), 82-86.
81.2 ‘Quality of Education in Pakistan’, Pakistan and Changing Scenario [IPRI,
Islamabad] (2008), 24-35

Not categorized / Not Indexed/ Not refereed

(Not accepted by the HEC for any purpose)

82.1 `Deracination and Alienation in the Works of Zulfikar Ghose', Journal of the English
Literary Club [Peshawar University] (1984-85), pp.109-120.

83.2 `English Prose by Pakistanis', Journal of the English Literary Club (1987), pp.97-105.

84.3 `Teaching the Speaking Skills in Pakistan: Rationale, Material and Methodology',
Ariel (Sind University) Vol 13 (1987-88) pp. 109-114.

85.4 ‘Daud Kamal as a Poet', Journal of the English Literary Club (1988), pp.20-27.

86.5 `The Philosophical Basis of English Literature', Journal of the English Literary Club (1989-
90) pp. 1-14).

87.6 `The Morphological and Syntactic Features of Pakistani English', Journal of English
Studies (Punjab University) 2: 1 (Apr 1991) pp. 57-81.

88.7 `Pakistani Literature in English: a Brief Introduction', Journal of the English

Literary Club (1992), pp.19-25.

89.8 `A Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Taufiq and Daud Kamal`, Ariel (Sind
University) 17 (1992-1993), 61-68.

90.9 `The Vernacular-English Controversy in Undivided India', Journal of English

Language Teaching and Studies [Punjab University] 1: 2 (1994), 95-125.

91.10 `The Hindko Language Movement in Pakistan', Kashmir Journal of Language

Research [Muzaffarabad, AK] 1: 1 (1996), 30-40.

92.11 ‘Urdu in Kashmir’, Scrutiny: A Journal of International and Pakistan Studies

[National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad] 1:1
(2007), 62-75.
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4. BOOK REVIEWS

The impact factors of previous five years average is given in square brackets. Out of over 300 book
reviews, only the ones in scholarly, indexed, abstracted or peer reviewed journals are given below:

(1) ‘Race Relations in Pakistani Literature in English. Revs. Hanif Kureishi, Borderline (1981);
Birds of Panage (1983); My beautiful Launderette (1986) and Tariq Mehmood, Hard on the
Sun (1983). In CRNLE Reviews Journal [Flinders University, Australia] Nos. 182 (1988), pp.
140-145. [Peer reviewed]

(2) ‘Rev. Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice. Candy Man (1988). In World Lit Today [U.S] (Autumn 1988), pp.
732-733. [Soc. Sc. Hum. Ind; Bk. Rev. Ind; Guide to Reviews of Books from and about Hispanic
America; Hispanica American Periodicals Ind; Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind; Int. Bibliog book Reviews].

(3) ‘Pioneering Art’, Rev. Iftekhar Arif, The Twelfth Man: Poems (1989). In Third World
Quarterly [London] Vol. 11: No. 4 (October 1989), pp. 303-304 [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr; Curr. Cont;
ABC Pol Sc; PAIS; Int Dev Abstr; Dev Ind; Soc. Sc. Lit. Ind; Br. Hum. Ind; Sociol. Abstr; Hist.
Abstr].

(4) ‘Rev. Ahmed Ali, Selected Poems (ed) Klaus Stuckert. In World Literature Today [U.S]
(Aulamn 1989), pp. 743-744 [Soc. Sc. Hum. Ind; Bk. Rev. Ind; Guide to Reviews of Books from
and about Hispanic America; Hispanica American Periodicals Ind; Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind; Int.
Bibliog book Reviews].

(5) ‘Rev. Adam Zameenzad, Love Bones and Water (1989). In World Lit Today [U.S] (Spring
1990), pp. 365-366. [as above].

(6) Rev. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories (ed) Wimal Dissanayake (1989). In
World Lit Today [USA] (Winter 1991), pp. 187-188 [Soc. Sc. Hum. Ind; Bk. Rev. Ind; Guide to
Reviews of Books from and about Hispanic America; Hispanica American Periodicals Ind; Arts.
Hum. Cit. Ind; Int. Bibliog book Reviews].

(7) `Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan'. Review Article. Language: Journal of the
Linguistic Society of America Vol.70: No.4 (December 1994). [AICP, Chic. Per. Ind; Hum. Ind;
Ind. Bk. Rev. Hum; Lang. Teach; Ling. Abstr; Psychol. Abstr; Soc. Sc. Cit. Ind] [Impact
factor 2.646]
(8) Pattanayak, D. R (ed.) Multilingualism in India Clevedon/Philadelphia: Multilingual
Matters, 1990. In Language Problems & Language Planning [Holland] 20: 3 (Fall 1996), pp.
277-280. [MLA; Socio. Abstr; Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr.; Amer. Bibl. Slavic & E. Eur. Stud; CIJE;
Cont. Pg: Educ; Lang. Teach & Ling. Abstr; Mult. Ed. Abstr; SOPODA].

(9) Rajendra Singh, Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani Peter Lang,
1995. In Meta [Canada] Vol. 43: No. 2 (June 1998), 325-326. [Curr. Cont; Arts. Hum. Cit. Ind].

(10) Review of Thomas Ricento (ed.), Ideology, Politics and language policies: Focus on English.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. In Language in Society (Cambridge
U.K) Vol 31 No 2 (April 2002). pp. 288-290. [ASCA; ASSIA; Abstr. Anthro; Anthro. Lit; Arts
& Hum. Cit. Ind; Bibl. Eng. Lang &Lit; Bibl. Ling; Bk. Rev. Ind; CIJE; Chic. Per. Ind; Br. Educ.
Ind; Curr. Cont; E.I; SOPODA; SSCI; Socio. Abstr; PCI; Psychol. Abstr; Sp. Ed. Needs. Abstr;
Sociol. Educ. Abstr]. [Impact factor 1.210]
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(11) Rev. Edward Conzel. A Short History of Buddhism (1980) Repr. 1996). In Islamic Studies
(Islamabad) Vol. 41: No 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 356-359.

(12) Rev. Mehrzad Bouroujerdi, Iranian Intellectuals and the West; the Tovmented Triumph of
Nativism (1996). In Islamic Studies (Islamabad) Vol. 42. No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 176-179.

(13) Rev. Roots of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: Four Lectures by Hamid Algar. New York:
Islamic Publications 2001. In Islamic Studies 42: 4 (Winter 2003) 711-714.

(14) Book Rev. of Language Planning in Higher Education: A Case Study of Pakistan by Sabiha
Mansoor in TESOL Quarterly Vol 41: No. 2 (June 2007) 433-436. [Impact factor 1.124]

(15) Book Rev. Redefining Urdu Politics in India (ed) Athar Farouqui in Annual of Urdu
Studies, No. 22.(2007), 295-300. [Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison, USA].

(16) Book Rev. Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World.
London: Harper Collin Publishers, 2005. pp 615. In Language Policy (2008) 7:75-79.

Total impact factor of above (Book reviews & Review article): 4.980
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5. SEMINARS/LECTURES/TALKS CONFERENCE PAPERS

Out of over 300 conference papers, talks, seminars, papers and invited lectures in
conferences, colleges and universities, private forums, NGOs, Administrative Staff College
(Lahore) and other academies for civil servants, armed forces staff colleges and training
academies, none is being separately listed here. Only some major talk and lectures are being
listed (conference papers and listed separately. Remarks as chair etc are not listed).

5.1 LECTURES AND TALKS

(1) ‘Language and Politics in Pakistan’, Lecture at Department of South Asian Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, USA, 30 Nov 1995.

(2) ‘Language and Politics in Pakistan’, Jawarlal Nehru University, February 1998.

(3) ‘Language Issue in Pakistan’, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Feb, 1998.

(4) ‘Pakistani literature in English’, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, Feb 1998.

(5) ‘Language and Ethnic Politics in Pakistan’, Lecture at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches
Internationals, Paris on 14 September 1999.

(6) ‘Language Teaching and Power: The Case of Pakistan’. Lecture at the Institute of English
Philology, University of Aarhus, Denmark 27 September 1999.

(7) ‘Language and Ethnic Politics in Pakistan’, Lecture, University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, 09 October 2000.

(8) ‘A New Framework for Language Teaching in relation to Power’, Lecture, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 11 October 2000.

(9) ‘Will Pakistan Breakup? The Linguistic Ethnic Threat to the State’, Lecture, MIT, 17
October 2000.

(10) ‘Language Policies and Education in Pakistan’, Inaugural lecture, 17 November 2004, for
the Quaid-i-Azam Chair on Pakistan Studies, Center of South Asia Studies, University of
California, Berkeley.

(11) Book Review of Ahmad Faruqi (Rethinking the National Security) and Hasan Abbas
(Pakistan’s Drift Into Extremism), Symposium on Pakistan’s National Security, 28 Jan
2005, University of California, Berkeley.

(12) ‘Madrassas in Pakistan’, Workshop at Stanford University, 06 May, 2005.

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(13) ‘Language and Politics in Pakistan’, Seminar paper, University of Delhi, Dept. of
Linguistics, 15 Jan 2008.

(14) ‘1857 in contemporary Urdu writings’, Seminar paper, University of Delhi, Dept. of
Linguistics, 18 Jan 2008.

(15) ‘The Identity of Urdu’, Lecture at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan
University, London, 23 Feb 2010.

(16) ‘Language Politics of Pakistan’, Fellows Seminar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies,
University of Oxford, 25 Feb 2010.

(17) ‘English in Post-Colonial Asian Countries: the case of Pakistan’, Talk in

Commonwealth Institute, University of London, 26 Feb 2010.

(18) ‘The Names of Urdu a Study in the Politics of Identity’, Royal Holloway College,
University of London, 9 Mar 2010.

(19) ‘Madrassas in Pakistan: Formal and Informal Education’, Lecture at Chatham House,
Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 10 March 2010.

(20) ‘Urdu as an Islamic Language’, Seminar, South Asia Institute, University of

Heidelberg, 23 Jun 2010.

(21) ‘The Images of the “Other” in School Textbooks and Islamic Literature in Pakistan’,
University of Tubingen, 28 Jun 2010.

(22) ‘Inscriptions on Pakistani Trucks as A Window into Pakistan’s Popular Culture’,

Lecture, University of Munich, 05 Jul 2010.

(23) ‘Who is afraid of Urdish and Urdi?’ Talk at TEDx Lahore, 31 Jul 2010.

5.2 CONFERENCE PAPERS

(1) `An Introduction to Pakistani Literature in English', P.E.N. Seminar on Issues in Asian
Literature, Seoul, South Korea (27 September 1992).

(2) `Language, Ethnicity and Security', Workshop Paper. Third NGO Summit, arranges by
the Sustainable Development Policy Institute of Islamabad, 22 Feb 1995, Kathmandu,
Nepal.

(3) `Language, Translation and Power', Paper read out in the Asian Translators Forum,
Beijing, 31 July 1995

(4) `Language Policy in South Asia', Seminar Leader and Presenter of paper on `Language
and Politics in Pakistan' at the University of California at Berkeley in the 11th South
Asian Conference, 18 Feb 1996.
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(5) `Language and Ethnicity in Pakistan', Paper in Language and Knowledge Conference at
the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, 09
Sept 1996. (Published in proceedings. See Contributions to books).

(6) ‘Higher Education in Pakistan’, Paper in Roundtable, South Asia Conference, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, 13 October 2000.

(7) ‘The Politics of English in Pakistan’ Keynote address in SPELT conference, Karachi, 12
October 2001.

(8) ‘Language-Learning and Power in Pakistan’, Paper read out on 18 April in World
Conference on Language Policies, 16-21 April 2002, Barcelona, Spain.

(9) ‘The images of the ‘Other’ in the textbooks of Pakistani Schools’. Paper read out on 25
October 2002, Library of Congress, Washington D. C.

(10) ‘Denizens of Alien Worlds: A Survey of Schools in Pakistan’, Paper read out on 12 April
2003, Center for Pakistan Studies, Columbia University, New York.

(11) ‘Language Policy, Multilingualism and Language Vitality in Pakistan’. Paper read out on
06 November 2003, First Conference on Language Development, Language
Revitalization and Multilingual Education, 6-8 November 2003 Bangkok, Thailand.

(12) ‘Language Policy and Localization in Pakistan: proposal for a Paradigmatic Shift’. Paper
read out in SCALLA 2004 Working Conference on Crossing the Digital Divide, 5-7
January 2004, Kathmandu, Nepal.
(13) ‘The Impact of European Languages in Former Colonial Territories: the Case of English
in Pakistan’, Keynote Address, Language Communities or Cultural Empires? The Impact
of European Languages in Former Colonial Territories Conference, Institute of European
Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 09 Feb 2005.

(14) ‘Language Policy, Multilingualism and Language Vitality in Pakistan’, SOUTH ASIA
CONFERENCE the PACIFIC NORTWEST (SACPAN) 2005 Conference, University of
Washington, Seattle, 26 February 2005.

(15) ‘Reasons for Rage: Reflections on the Education System of Pakistan with Reference to its
Potential for Violence and the Role of English’, Education in Pakistan Conference,
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C.

(16) Prudery in South Asian Literature: Changes in Language Texts During the Colonial Era’,
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Conference, Pakistan in World-Historical Context,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 28-30 May 2005.

(17) ‘Madrassa Education, Inequality and the Potential for Violence in Pakistan’, International
Workshop (conference), University of Erfurt (Germany), 19-21 May, 2005.
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(18) ‘Imperatives of Identity in the Historiography of Urdu’, Bridging the Distances: Urdu
Across Border, International Conference, 5-7 March 2007, Dept of Urdu, University of
Mumbai, India.

(19) ‘Ideological Imperatives in Urdu Linguistics: A Study of Insha and Shirani’, International
Conference on South Asian Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, 06 Jan 2008.

(20) ‘Pakistan’s Language Policy’. Plenary Presentation. 2nd International Conference on

Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education. Bangkok,
[03 July, 2008].

6. COURSES TAUGHT

1. Research Methodology (M.Sc, M.Phil; Ph. D; NGOs etc). [Quaid-i-Azam University, Aga Khan
University, Joint Services Staff College; Aga Khan Foundation, NGORC].

2. Report Writing (middle managerial level) (NGO, government and semi government personnel).
[Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) (1998,1999) : Oil and Gas Development
Corporation (2000, 2001 twice) ; IUCN Gilgit (2002); Society for Human Rights and Prisoners
Aid (SHARP) May, 2003; SDPI June and July, 2003].

3. General linguistics (M.Sc) [Azad Kashmir University, University of Sana (Yemen), Quaid-i-
Azam University].

4. Anthropological linguistics (M.Sc) [Quaid-i-Azam University].

5. Language Problems and Politics in Pakistan (M.Sc, M.Phil) [Quaid-i-Azam University].

6. South Asian Ethnic Politics (M. Phil) [Quaid-i-Azam University].

7. Stylistics (M.A) [Peshawar University, University of Sana (Yemen), Azad Kashmir University].

8. English Language & Literature (M.A) [Peshawar University].

9. Language Conflicts in the World: With Focus on South Asia (M.A). [University of Castellon,
Spain].

10. Language and Politics in Pakistan. Graduate Course, University of California, Berkeley, USA,
Spring Semester 2005.

7. SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH
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7.1. Doctoral

7.1.1. Naureen Talha, ‘Economic Factors in the Making of Pakistan’, Ph. D Thesis, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad. 1985.

7.1.2 Sabiha Mansoor, ‘The Role of English in Higher Education in Pakistan’, Ph. D University of
Reading, U.K, 2002 [As co-supervisor in Pakistan].

7.1.3 Lubna Ali, ‘Foreign Policy of A Post-Revolutionary State: A Case Study of Iran, 1979-2002’,
QAU, 2003.

7.2 M. Phil

7.2.1 Ijlal Hussain Shah, ‘The Pragmatics of Formality and Politeness in Burushaski and Shia’, M.
Phil, QAU, 1994.

7.2.2 Sajid Awan, ‘Divergent Attitudes and Fertility Trends in Pakistan’, M. Phil, QAU, 1997.

7.2.3 Azmat Ullah Raja, ‘Hamood-Ur-Rehman Commission Report: An Analysis’, M. Phil, QAU,
2003.

7.3 M.Sc

7.3.1 Mariam Durrani, ‘Impact of Modernization on Hindko’, M.Sc Anthropology, QAU, 1995.

7.3.2 Najia Hyder, ‘Language as a Means of Influencing Power’, M.Sc Anthropology, QAU, 1995.

7.3.3 Yaqub ul Hasan, ‘Azad Kashmir Mein Kashmiri Zaban ke Masail aur us ka Mustaqlil’ [Urud:
The Problems and Prospects of Kashmiri in Azad Kashmir] M.Sc, Allama Iqbal Open University,
1991.

8. CITATION OF MY WORK

Citations in Google.Scholar.com 256

Citations by others seen by the author 34
Total 290
Citations in Books by self 85
Citations in Journal articles by self 100
Total 185
Grand Total 475

(1) More than one citation to a work in any one publication is not counted.
(2) Citations in dissertations are not included.
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(3) Effort has been made that citations of the same work in different data bases are counted
only once. It will be appreciated of mistakes in this regard are brought to the attention of
the author.