Author Description

"Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and Institute of Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm, Sweden jointly organized a two-day National Seminar on The Political Roles of Religious Communities in Pakistan in IPRI conference room on 29-30 October 2007. The seminar was a part of an overall project on religion and security politics in South Asia. The purpose of the project was to explore the role of religious communities and their relation to state apparatus, status in law, and how the local, national and regional levels are interrelated. This volume contains the papers presented in the seminar comprising of five sessions during which ten presentations were made by different scholars."--Introduction