The book contains the Durand Line Border Agreement between Pakistan and Afganistan and treaties, conventions, protocols with and relating to Afghanistan

This study has been undertaken in the context of Pakistani history, and the American interest in South Asia. All important milestones have been focused upon in this study from 1492, when Christopher Columbus managed to obtain the patronage of the Spanish crown to discover a sea route to India, down to the years just before the partition of 1947

Written by Abdul Sattar, a former foreign minister and foreign secretary, the book comprises 329 pages and documents the country history. It provides a factual basis for objective appraisal and helps identify lessons useful to future policy makers

This book covers a relatively narrow canvas. It is a footnote to the early years of Pakistan`s diplomatic history. There are no disclosures made and no secrets unveiled. Much of what is written here is known or surmised. These memoirs span a period of nearly sixty years, from the thirties to the nineties - decades of tumult and trasformation that saw wars and cataclysms, the fall of empires and the decline of ideologies

This book is a penetrating analysis of Pakistan's foreign policy from the time of Independence in 1947 until the beginning of the new millennium. The formulation of Pakistan's foreign policy has been discussed from a fresh perspective. The author has tried to pragmatically examine the structural failures of Pakistan's foreign policy-making process and calls for new thinking on various aspects of Pakistan's foreign policy

In 1988 a collection of Agha Shahi speeches and articles, a Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister of Pakistan from 1977 to 1982, was published as Pakistan`s Security and Foreign Policy. Agha Shahi has provided an excellent basis for debating the foreign policy issues of today. Many puzzling aspects of Pakistani policies become clearer after a reading of these papers

The book contains the papers of sessions devoted the Pakistani policy after 9/11. Among them - Domestic Challenges to National Security by Mushahid H. Sayed ; Palistan and the United States : Steady Partners in the Years Ahead? by Dennis Kux ; The Evolution of Higher Education in Pakistan - Efforts to Meet the Challenges of the 20th Century by Usman Ali Isani etc.

This book offers the first detailed analytical account of the diplomatic process set in motion by that intervention and culminating in the April 1988 Geneva Accords - a milestone in multilateralism and UN peacemaking

Global Terrorism is a matter of concern to every country, in fact everybody, in the world. So it was natural for the Institute of Regional Studies to focus its 2005 international seminar on global terrorism. A few eminent scholars and subject specialists from around the world got the support to this seminar. Their thought-provoking presentations needed to be preserved in book form to be of lasting value to a far wider audience. Seminar`s papers are published in this book

This book addresses the issue of conflict and conflict resolution through an incremental approach. With the passage of time, new ideas and concepts dealing with the challenge of conflict escalation, conflict mismanagement and conflict transformation are being presented