DR. TARIQ RAHMAN

Distinguished National Professor & Director
National Institute of Pakistan Studies
Quaid-i-Azam University
Islamabad

Phone #: (92-51) 2896003,90644010 (Off) E-mail: drt_rahman@yahoo.com
Citizenship: Pakistani Date of Birth: February 4, 1949.
Fax No.: (92-51)-2896004


Biographical Note

Tariq Rahman Ph.D is an HEC Distinguished National Professor for life. Having retired as a Tenured Professor of Sociolinguistic History from the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in February 2009, he remains the Director of the Institute. He is a highly published scholar with over 88 articles in scholarly journals; 15 books; 5 encyclopedia articles; 26 contributions to books and 15 book reviews. His most famous book Language and Politics in Pakistan, published by Oxford (Pakistan) in 1996, remains in print and has recently (2007) been published by Orient Blackswan in India. His history of language-learning among the Muslims of South Asia, Language, Ideology and Power (OUP 2002), remains a landmark in the field and its revised edition was also published by Orient Blackswan in India in 2008. His latest book, Denizens of Alien Worlds (OUP 2004), connects the medium of instruction with world view, poverty and politics in Pakistan. He now intends to write a social history of Urdu.

Dr. Rahman has been a guest professor in Denmark and Spain. He has been a Fulbright research scholar (1995-96) at U. T. Austin. He was also the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at U.C Berkeley (2004-05). He has lectured or contributed conference papers in the U. K.— where he obtained his M. A and Ph. D—as well as the U. S. A, Germany, France, China, Korea, India and Nepal. He also contributes columns and book reviews to the English language press in Pakistan.


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

Pride of Performance - 2004
Pitras Bukhari Award for a Book entitled Language 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. - 1997


1998
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (USA) - 1995-96
Overseas Development Association Scholarship (UK) - 1988-89
British Council Scholarship (UK) - 1981 -85
Merit Scholarship in Matriculation - 1965-67

Experience

2007 July Tenure Track Professor (Director)
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.
2007 July 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)

Honrary Positions

2003 (October) Adviser, Quality Assurance & Control, Higher Education Commission, Islamabad.
2002-2003 Dec Visiting Fellow at Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
2001 Member, Council of Social Sciences, Pakistan.
1997-1999 Chief Editor, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
1996- Member Editorial Board for Pakistan, Yearbook in Linguistics, University of Montreal, Canada.
1994-1997 Member Federal Board of Film Censors, Islamabad.

Publications

15 Books, 26 Contributions to books, 88 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.net).

List of relevant Publications

This list does not include book reviews and articles on other than literary, linguistic and social scientific subjects in scholarly journals. It also does not include articles in newspapers and magazines on any subject.

1.      Books and Monographs (Total 15)

Books based on research (total 6) 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.
(4) .1991. 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.
(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.
(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. Poem of Autumn Islamabad Leo Books.
(15) .2004. Language and Education Selected Documents (1780-2003) Islamabad: Chair on Quaid-i-Azam and Freedom Movement.


Edited 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


1.      Contribution to Books (Total:26)
      Encyclopedia Articles are given in bold

(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 'Ephebophilia and the Creation of a Spiritual Myth in the Works of Ralph Nicholas Chubb', Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical Socio-Psychological and Legal Perspectives .eds. Theo Sandfort et. al (New York and London: The Haworth Press), pp.103-127.
(5) 1991 'Higher Education for the Future', Pakistan 2000 A.D .ed R. M Hussain (Islamabad: Pakistan Futuristics Institute), 205-214.
(6)       'English Bibliography 1993', in Kitabiat Pakistani Adab 1993 [Urdu/English: Bibliography: Pakistani Literature] (Islamabad: Academy of Letters, 1994), pp. 221-238
(7)       'Introduction' to The Sufi Poets of Pakistan with brief biographical notes on the poets, Islamabad: The Pakistan Academy of Letters, 1995.
(8)       The following entries in Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English Vols 1 and 2:
  1. Hanif Kureishi, Vol 1, pp. 788-789.
  2. Life Writing, Vol 1, pp. 875-877.
  3. Short Fiction, Vol 2, pp.1474-1476
(9) 1996 '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].
(10) 1997 'Introduction' to Daud Kamal : A Selection of Verse Karachi: Oxford University Press.
(11)       '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).
(12) 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.
(13) 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].
(14) 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].
(15)       'Introduction' to Tales of the Punjab Told by the People (1894). Edited by Flora Annie Steel. Karachi: Oxford University, 2002, pp. ix-xvii.
(16)       '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.
(17)       '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.
(18)       '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.
(19)       '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.
(20)       '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.
(21)       '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.
(22)       '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.
(23)       '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.
(24)       '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.
(25)       '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 Contexts (London and New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2007), Chapter 12, pp. 219-239.
(26)       '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.


3.      Journal Articles (Total:88)

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

HEC CATEGORY 'W'

(Peer-reviewed, indexed journals from industrially advanced countries: USA, UK, Europe, Australia and Japan with indices given in brackets).
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]
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].
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.].
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]
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].
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].
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]
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].
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].
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].
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].
12. 'Boy love in the Urdu Ghazal', Paidika (Amsterdam) 2: 1 (Summer 1989) pp. 10-27. [ Smaller version reprinted in Annual of Urdu Studies, [Chicago University, USA] (1990) pp. 1-20]. [Periodica Islamica; MLA; MLA int. Bib; IBZ; IBRWL].
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].
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].
15. 'A Short History of the Pakistani Novel in English', Commonwealth Novel in English 3: 2 (Fall 1990), 143-159. [Abstr. Eng. St; MLA].
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].
17. 'Eplebophilia and the Creation of a Spiritual Myth in the Works of Ralph Nicholas Chubb' , Journal of Homosexuality [New York] Vol-20: Nos. ˝ (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].
18. '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].
19. '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].
20. 'Syed Ross Masood and A Passage to India', American Notes and Quries [University of Kentucky, USA] 4:2 (April, 1991), pp.78-81. [Abstr. Eng. St; Abstr. Folklore St; RBR; Bk. Rev. Ind; Yr. Wrk. Eng].
21. '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].
22. 'The Use of Words in Pakistani English' , English Today (Cambridge, UK) 7: 2 (Apr 1991), pp. 32-38. [Language Teaching; Linguistics Abstracts]
23. '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].
24. '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].
25. '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].
26. '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].
27. '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].
28. '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].
29. '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].
30. 'Language of the Proto-Historic Indus Valley', The Mankind Quarterly 36: Nos. 3 & 4 (Spring/Summer 1996), 221-246. [A.I.C. P; Abstr. Anthro; Amer: Hist & Life, Lang & Lang. Behav. Abstr; MLA].
31. '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. Soc Sc].
32. '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].
33. '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. Behav. Abstr; Lang Teach and Ling Abstr; MLA; SP. Ed. Needs Abstr].
34. '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]
35. '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].
37. '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]
38. '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].
39. '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].
40. '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].
41. '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
42. '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].
43. '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].
44. '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].
45. '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].
46. '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].
47. '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].
48. '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].
49. '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].
50. '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. [As given on number 30].
51. '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].
52. '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].
53. 'The British Learning of Hindustani', Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia [Jammia, Millia, Delhi at Cambridge UP] Vol. No. 1 (Jan-Jan 2008), 46-93 .
54. 'Urdu in Hyderabad State', Annual of Urdu Studies [University of Wisconsin-Madison , U.S.A] Vol. No. 23 (2008), pp. 36-54.
55. 'The Events of 1857 in Contemporary writings in Urdu', South asia: Journal of South Asian Studies {Australia} Vol. XXXII No.2,(August 2009) pp. 212-229. [Arts & Hum. Cit. Ind; Hist. Abstr; Res. Alert; Curr. Cont; Per Islam].

HEC CATEGORY 'X'

Indexed, abstracted, refereed and reviewed by at least one referee from an industrially advanced countries. Journals published outside Pakistan are in bold.
56.1 'The Priest of Hate: Alienation in D. H. Lawrence', Literary Half-Yarly [India] (Jan, 1984), pp.81-105. [Abstracts of English Studies; MLA]
57.2 'Stereotypes in the Fiction of Angus Wilson', Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics [India] 8: 1-2 (1985), pp.91-107. [MLA]
58.3 '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].
59.4 'Pakistani English Poetry: A Survey',Journal of Indian Writing in English [India]16:2(Jul, 1988), pp.27-44.[MLA]
60.5 'Pakistan: Introduction', Frank: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art [France] 10 (Autumn, 1988), pp.101-110.
61.6 'Language Policy in Pakistan', Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] 14: 1 (January 1996), pp. 73-98. [Int Pol Sc Abstr; Socio. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR Int of Abstr and Rev].
62.7 '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].
63.8 'Cultural Imperialism and the Pragmatics of Urdu in Pakistan', PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies [India] 7: 2 (July 1997), pp. 181-199.
64.9 '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]
65.10 'Language, Politics and Power in Pakistan : The Case of Sindh and Sindhi', Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] Vol. XVII; No. 1 (January 1999), pp. 21-43. [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR]
66.11 'Language, Knowledge and Inequality', PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies, [India] Volume 9:2, July 1999, pp. 145-152.
67.12 '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]
68.13. '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].
69.14 'Foreign Languages and National Imperatives in Pakistan' , Ethnic Studies Report [Sri Lanka] Vol. 19. No.1 (January 2001) pp. 39-67. [Int. Pol. Sc. Abstr; Socio. Abstr; PAIS; ICSSR].
70.15 '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/
71.16 'The British Learning of hindustani', Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia [Delhi] Vol. 2 No.1 (Jan-June, 2008), 46-73
72.17 '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 Affiars Information Service (PAIS); International Bibliographie der Rezensionen (IBR); Muslim World Book Review; Middle East Journal, American Theological Library Association (ALTA); Religion Index One]

HEC CATEGORY 'Y'

Indexed but not reviewed by an expert from an industrially advanced country
73.1 'The Urdu-Hindu Controversy', Pakistan Journal of History & Culture, Vol. XV: No. 2 (Jul-Dec 1994), 19-45.
74.2 'The Bengali Language Movement', Pakistan Journal of History and Culture 16: 2 (July- Dec 1995), 1-32. [Per. Islamica; Amer: Hist & Life; Hist. Abstr as claimed by the journal. However, Ulrichs (2001) does not list this journal].
75.3 'Images of the "Other" in Pakistani Textbooks' , Pakistan Perspectives Vol. 7: No. 2 (Jul-Dec 2002), 33-49.
76.4 'Education Policies in Pakistan' , Pakistan Perspectives Vol. 9: NO. 1 (Jan-Jun 2004), pp. 90.

HEC CATEGORY 'Z'

Not abstracted or indexed. Acceptable by the HEC till June 2008 only.
77.1 'Noah Webster and American English: Political Aspects of Linguistic Changes', Pakistan Journal of American Studies Vol. II No.2 (Fall 1993), 82-86.
78.2 'Quality of Education in Pakistan', Pakistan and Changing Scenario, [IPRI, Islamabad] (2008), 24-35.

Not categorized/ Not Indexed/ Not referred
( Not accepted by the HEC for any purpose)

79.1 'Deracination and Alienation in the Works of Zulfikar Ghose', Journal of the English Literary Club [Peshawar University] (1984-85), pp.109-120.
80.2 'English Prose by Pakistanis', Journal of the English Literary Club, pp.97-105.
81.3 'Teaching the Speaking Skills in Pakistan: Rationale, Material and Methodology' , Ariel (Sind University) Vol 13 (1987-88) pp. 109-114.
82.4 'Daud Kamal as a Poet', Journal of the English Literary Club (1988), pp.20-27.
83.5 'The Philosophical Basis of English Literature', Journal of the English Literary Club (1989-90) pp. 1-14).
84.6 'The Morphological and Syntactic Features of Pakistani English', Journal of English Studies (Punjab University) 2: 1 (Apr 1991) pp. 57-81.
85.7 'Pakistani Literature in English: a Brief Introduction', Journal of the English Literary Club (1992), pp.19-25.
86.8 'A Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Taufiq and Daud Kamal', Ariel (Sind University) (1992-1993), 61-68.
87.9 'The Vernacular-English Controversy in Undivided India', Journal of English Language Teaching and Studies [Punjab University] 1: 2 (1994), 95-125.
88.10 'The Hindko Language Movement in Pakistan', Kashmir Journal of Language Research [Muzaffarabad, AK] 1: 1 (1996), 30-40.


3.      Book Reviews (Total:16)

Out of over 200 books 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 [Fbnders 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]
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), pp. 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].
11. Rev. Edward Conzel. A Short History of Buddhism (1980) Repr. 1996). In Islamic Studies (Islamabad)
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.
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 World: A Language History of the World. London: Harper Collin Publishers, 2005. pp. 615. In Language Policy (2008) 7:75-79


5.      Seminars/Lectures/Talks Conference Papers

Out of over 200 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.
13. 'Language and Politics in Pakistan', Seminar paper, University of Delhi, Department of Delhi, 15 June, 2008.
14. '1857 in contemporary Urdu writings', Seminar paper, University of Delhi, Department of Delhi, 18 June, 2008.


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.
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.
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 Stduy 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 in Ethnolinguistic Communities, Bangkok, 02 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

Doctoral
1. Naureen Talha, 'Economic Factors in the Making of Pakistan', Ph. D Thesis, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. 1985.
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].
3. Lubna Ali, 'Foreign Policy of A Post-Revolutionary State: A Case Study of Iran, 1979-2002', QAU, 2003.
M. Phil.
1. Ijlal Hussain Shah, 'The Pragmatics of Formality and Politeness in Burushaski and Shia',M. Phil, QAU, 1994
2. Sajid Awan,'Divergent Attitudes and Fertility Trends in Pakistan', M. Phil, QAU, 1997.
3. Azmat Ullah Raja, 'Hamood-Ur-Rehman Commission Report: An Analysis', M. Phil, QAU, 2003.
M.Sc.
1. Mariam Durrani, 'Impact of Modernization on Hindko', M.Sc Anthropology, QAU, 1995.
2. Najia Hyder, 'Language as a Means of Influencing Power', M.Sc Anthropology, QAU, 1995.
3. Yaqub ul Hasan, 'Azad Kashmir Mein Kashmiri Zaban ke Masail aur us ka Mustaqlil'[Urdu: 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 166
Citations in ISI Web of Knowledge 35
Citations in Google 19
Citations by others seen by the author 34
Total 254
Citations in Books by self 78
Citations in Journals articles by self 91
Total 169
Grand Total 423

  1. More than one citation to a work in any one publication is not counted.
  2. Citations in dissertations are not included.
  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.