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Pakistan has ever since grappled with the problem but the tide decisively turned towards the latter since Zia-ul-Haq's Islamisation project. The power vacuum can lead to another sectarian and refugee crisis at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, especially if the Taliban and the Afghan government fail to reconcile their differences with a devastating consequence for the already explosive sectarian situation in Pakistan. The history of sectarian conflict in Pakistan is as old as the country's existence. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Service-Led Growth: The Role of the Service Sector in World Development," by Dorothy I. Riddle.

In I Threshold Modernisms i , Elizabeth F. Evans develops recent scholarship on modernist configurations of gender and women's mobilities by critically positioning London as the spatial backdrop for the formation of the "new public woman". As Evans proves throughout her book, the new public woman was instrumental to the ways in which imperial London articulated its modernist character: "Modernist London and the city's women came into being together" (p. 20). In her opening chapter, Evans situates her argument at the intersection of spatial theory and identity studies before she emphasises the importance of the "liminal" to her book's broader claim. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the books "Pakistan: Democracy, Terrorism, and the Building of a Nation," by Iftikhar Malik, and "The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan," by Saadia Toor.

The article reviews the book "Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia," by Tushaar Shah.

Reviews the book "Learning NGOs and the Dynamics of Development Partnership," edited by Farhad Hossain, Marko Ulvila and Ware Newaz.