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Passports to Privilege: the English-Medium Schools in Pakistan
Peace and Democracy in South Asia, Volume 1, Number 1, January 2005. PASSPORTS TO PRIVILEGE: THE ENGLISH-MEDIUM SCHOOLS IN PAKISTAN TARIQ RAHMAN _____________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Based on two recent surveys of some selected urban areas of Pakistan, the author draws interesting conclusions in this article about the English-medium schools in Pakistan. The elites of the country have long realized the power of the English language and have even institutionalized the process of acquiring the same. As seen elsewhere in South Asia, the English-speaking elites of the country profess one thing about their national languages and practise something else for their own children. The craving for excellence in English language as a tool for a more successful life is not confined to the city elites but has penetrated the army, the air force, and the naval branches of a country that has frequently been ruled by army generals. It is also clear from this article that the privileged children of Pakistan are westernised in terms of lifestyle and liberal in attitude towards India, although after joining the state, they are seen supporting the militaristic policies of the state. _____________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION English is the official language of Pakistan. It is used in all domains of power - government, bureaucracy, military, judiciary, commerce, media, education and research - at the highest level. Because it is empowering to learn English, people all over the country are ready to invest in it for the future of their children. Because of this demand, all over the cities of Pakistan one can see boards advertising institutions which claim to be English-medium schools or tuition ‘centres’ claiming to teach spoken English and English for passing all kinds of examinations and interviews. -
Pakistan's Army
Pakistan’s Army: New Chief, traditional institutional interests Introduction A year after speculation about the names of those in the race for selection as the new Army Chief of Pakistan began, General Qamar Bajwa eventually took charge as Pakistan's 16th Chief of Army Staff on 29th of November 2016, succeeding General Raheel Sharif. Ordinarily, such appointments in the defence services of countries do not generate much attention, but the opposite holds true for Pakistan. Why this is so is evident from the popular aphorism, "while every country has an army, the Pakistani Army has a country". In Pakistan, the army has a history of overshadowing political landscape - the democratically elected civilian government in reality has very limited authority or control over critical matters of national importance such as foreign policy and security. A historical background The military in Pakistan is not merely a human resource to guard the country against the enemy but has political wallop and opinions. To know more about the power that the army enjoys in Pakistan, it is necessary to examine the times when Pakistan came into existence in 1947. In 1947, both India and Pakistan were carved out of the British Empire. India became a democracy whereas Pakistan witnessed several military rulers and still continues to suffer from a severe civil- military imbalance even after 70 years of its birth. During India’s war of Independence, the British primarily recruited people from the Northwest of undivided India which post partition became Pakistan. It is noteworthy that the majority of the people recruited in the Pakistan Army during that period were from the Punjab martial races. -
Private Military and Security Companies: Industry-Led Self-Regulatory Initiatives Versus State-Led Containment Strategies
The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding 11 CCDP Working Paper Role and Governance of Islamic Charitable Institutions: Private Military and Security Companies: Industry-Led Self-Regulatory Initiatives versus State-Led Containment Strategies Raymond Saner 1 Contents List of Acronyms ....................................................................................................................... 2 Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................4 Definitions and Use of Private Military and Security Companies ............................6 The PMSC Industry ..............................................................................................8 Self-Regulatory Initiatives by PMSCs ................................................................... 10 Countermoves by States and International Humanitarian Organizations ............... 14 Colliding Regulatory Initiatives .......................................................................... 16 Recommendations ............................................................................................. 20 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 23 Annexes .................................................................................................................................. -
B-400093.4,B-400093.5 Aegis Defence Services Limited
Comptroller General of the United States United Stat es Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington , DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Aegis Defence Services Limited File: B-400093.4; B-400093.5 Date: October 16, 2008 John S. Pachter, Esq., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Gregory, Esq., Matthew Lloyd Haws, Esq., and Richard C. Johnson, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. David S. Black, Esq., Megan M. Mocho, Esq., and Jessica M. Madon, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Global Strategies Group (Integrated Security), Inc., an intervenor. Roderick McCracken, Esq., Robert J. McKenney, Esq., and Derek B. Santos, Esq., Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph O. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated awardee and protester under experience and past performance factors by downgrading protester based on its limited experience in Afghanistan, and by giving awardee credit for experience of its subcontractors, including contracts performed in Afghanistan, is denied where agency judgments were reasonable and consistent with terms of solicitation. 2. Protest that agency improperly disregarded risk posed by awardee’s low price is denied where record demonstrated that agency had compared individual fixed price line items to government estimate and to prices offered by competitors, identified those where there were significant differences, and documented the agency’s basis for concluding that the awardee’s prices were reasonable. -
Eighteenth International Seapower Symposium: Report of the Proceedings
U.S. Naval War College U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons International Seapower Symposium Events 10-2007 Eighteenth International Seapower Symposium: Report of the Proceedings The U.S. Naval War College Follow this and additional works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/iss Recommended Citation Naval War College, The U.S., "Eighteenth International Seapower Symposium: Report of the Proceedings" (2007). International Seapower Symposium. 3. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/iss/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Events at U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Seapower Symposium by an authorized administrator of U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SEAPOWER SYMPOSIUM Report of the Proceedings ISS18.prn C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\5164_NWC_ISS-18\Ventura\ISS18.vp Friday, August 28, 2009 3:11:10 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ISS18.prn C:\Documents and Settings\john.lanzieri.ctr\Desktop\NavalWarCollege\5164_NWC_ISS-18\Ventura\ISS18.vp Friday, August 28, 2009 3:11:12 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SEAPOWER SYMPOSIUM Report of the Proceedings 17–19 October 2007 Edited by John B. Hattendorf Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History Naval War College with John W. Kennedy NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT,RHODE ISLAND -
Ex New Horizon
Archived Content Information identified as archived on the Web is for reference, research or record-keeping purposes. It has not been altered or updated after the date of archiving. Web pages that are archived on the Web are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. As per the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada, you can request alternate formats on the "Contact Us" page. Information archivée dans le Web Information archivée dans le Web à des fins de consultation, de recherche ou de tenue de documents. Cette dernière n’a aucunement été modifiée ni mise à jour depuis sa date de mise en archive. Les pages archivées dans le Web ne sont pas assujetties aux normes qui s’appliquent aux sites Web du gouvernement du Canada. Conformément à la Politique de communication du gouvernement du Canada, vous pouvez demander de recevoir cette information dans tout autre format de rechange à la page « Contactez-nous ». 1 CANADIAN FORCES COLLEGE / COLLÈGE DES FORCES CANADIENNES JCSP 33 / PCEMI 33 EXERCISE/EXERCICE NEW HORIZONS An Enduring Conflict: Specialist Retention in the British Army Versus Private Security Companies By /par Maj IS Warren This paper was written by a student La présente étude a été rédigée par un attending the Canadian Forces College stagiaire du Collège des Forces in fulfilment of one of the requirements canadiennes pour satisfaire à l'une des of the Course of Studies. The paper is exigences du cours. L'étude est un a scholastic document, and thus document qui se rapporte au cours et contains facts and opinions which the contient donc des faits et des opinions author alone considered appropriate que seul l'auteur considère appropriés and correct for the subject. -
The Evolution of the Private Military Industry After the Cold War Joel AC
Outsourcing War: The Evolution of the Private Military Industry after the Cold War Joel AC Baum Anita M McGahan Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 105 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6, Canada February 20, 2009 rev. October 5, 2009 Thanks to Xuesong Geng and Diederik van Liere for research assistance and to Rajshree Agarwal, Nick Argyres, Lyda Bigelow, Sandro Cabral, Ramon Cassadeus-Masanell, JP Eggers, Sarah Kaplan, Joe Mahoney, Costas Markides, Brian Silverman, Adrian Tschoegl, Marc Ventresca, Charlie Williams and seminar participants at the Academy of Management Meetings, Duke University, Erasmus University, New York University, London Business School, the NBER, the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto and the Wharton School for discussions related to this paper. Copyright © 2008, 2009 Joel AC Baum and Anita M McGahan. All rights reserved. Outsourcing War: The Evolution of the Private Military Industry after the Cold War Abstract In this paper, we study the evolution of private military corporations (PMCs), which are for-profit organizations that subcontract military field services to sovereign authorities as well as to others. Between Eisenhower’s famous “military-industrial complex” speech in 1961 and the post-9/11 war in Iraq, PMCs were transformed from relatively minor subcontractors to major companies with unique capabilities that made them strategically central to the sovereign military organizations from which they had grown. Throughout this period, PMCs exhibited a “hybrid organizational form” as delineated within organizational economics. Our purpose is grounded theorizing in which we derive insights about the evolution of PMCs as hybrid organizational forms. -
Military Budgets in India and Pakistan: Trajectories, Priorities, Risks
MILITARY BUDGETS in INDIA and PAKISTAN Trajectories, Priorities, and Risks by Shane Mason Military Budgets in India and Pakistan: Trajectories, Priorities, and Risks © Copyright 2016 by the Stimson Center. All rights reserved. Printed in Washington, D.C. Stimson Center 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 U.S.A. Visit www.stimson.org for more information about Stimson’s research. 2 Military Budgets in India and Pakistan: Trajectories, Priorities, and Risks PREFACE The Stimson Center prides itself in fact-driven analysis, as exemplified in Shane Mason’s report, Military Budgets in India and Pakistan: Trajectories, Priorities, and Risks. Shane’s analysis and policy-relevant conclusions are properly caveated, because India does not reveal some important data about defense spending, and Pakistan, while doing better to offer its citizens defense budget information, still reveals less than India. While Shane has found it necessary to draw inferences about spending for nuclear weapon- related programs, for which there is little publicly available information, he has been transparent about his sources and methodology. Those who appreciate reading the pages of The Economist will find comfort immersing themselves in Shane’s charts and graphs comparing trends in Indian and Pakistani defense expenditures. This Stimson report is also accessible to those who prefer analysis to numerology. Shane’s analytical bottom lines are worth highlighting. The growth of India’s defense expenditures relative to Pakistan are noteworthy, but the full impact of this differential will be diminished absent reforms in familiar organizational, bureaucratic, and procurement practices, as well as by growth in benefit payments. -
125-132 Book Review -Eng.Qxd
MILITARY INC. Ayesha Siddiqa. Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy. London: Pluto Press, 2007. 304 p. Reviewed by Gennady Evstafiev In 2007 Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a Pakistani political analyst and Woodrow Wilson Center scholar, published her fundamental research on a specific phenomenon, observed in a number of third world countries, looking into its history, development, current situation and influence in Pakistan. This phenomenon is an increasing participation of the military forces in the business and economic life of some countries, contracted as Milbus. Even though Dr. Siddiqa scrutinized abundant data related to the situation in her native coun try, nearly all revealed trends and methods of penetrating into the economic life of a state are also characteristic of the military in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, more so in Turkey, and to different degrees in a number of other countries, including those in Latin America, and even countries like China (before 1988). The degree to which the military have penetrated into the economy and the general level of their influence in society directly depends on and is proportional to the degree of their access to political leverage and relations with other key political players of a country. Naturally, meth ods used by military circles depend on the historical circumstances in which specific countries emerged and developed, as well as on the nature of relations between civil society and top mil itary echelons, power and influence of specific political institutions in some countries, espe cially the democratic ones. The conclusion made by Dr. Siddiqa is very much wellgrounded and can be handy in analyti cal research of the role the military play today in developing countries that for various histori cal, economic, and political reasons are prone to longterm instability and imbalance of polit ical systems. -
Regulating Private Military Companies: What Role for the EU?
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Brunel University Research Archive This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Contemporary Security Policy, Volume 26, Number 1, 2005, pp. (copyright Taylor & Francis), available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13523260500116091#.Uv4jr6OcYkA Regulating Private Military Companies: What Role for the EU? ELKE KRAHMANN Introduction Following allegations that private security guards were involved in the torture of Iraqi prisoners and in the wake an attempted coup by private mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea the proliferation of so-called ‘private military companies’ (PMCs) is again receiving considerable attention.1 Of particular concern in the public and academic debate is the continuing lack of effective national and international controls of the industry. Much of this debate criticizes that international regulation has so far focused almost exclusively on mercenaries and has been bogged down by problems related to defining PMCs. Moreover, it is suggested that national controls on PMCs are lacking in most countries with the exception of the United States and South Africa. This article seeks to show that this debate is systematically underestimat- ing the level of national and international regulation of the sector and thus the possibility of strengthening existing controls. It suggests that in particular in Europe since the mid-1990s there has been a growth of national and inter- national policies which directly or indirectly shape the provision and export of private military services. Moreover, this article argues that due to the specific dynamics of European integration these controls are not only increas- ing, but also converging within the European Union (EU). -
Captain Suvarat Magon, in Maritime Security Strategy
海幹校戦略研究 2019 年 12 月（9-2） ROLE OF THE INDIAN NAVY IN PROVIDING MARITIME SECURITY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION Captain Suvarat Magon, IN Introduction India is the third largest and one of the fastest growing economies in the world today based on gross domestic product (GDP) measured in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). India is a peninsular maritime nation straddling Indian Ocean with 7,517 km of coastline, 2.37 million square kilometers of exclusive economic zone (EEZ) encompassing 1,197 island territories in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and supporting world’s second largest population on a continental landmass of the seventh largest country. Consequently, India’s hunger for energy and need for resources to support rapid economic and industrial growth makes its dependence on the IOR a strategic imperative. In this environment of expansion of sea trade to far off and diverse shores kissed by waters of the Indian Ocean and beyond, competition with other powers to fulfill the ever-growing needs of own population and the corresponding surge towards overall development, the security of the seas is likely to be a key to progress of the nation and therefore assumes critical importance especially in the prevailing environment of multifarious challenges that range from traditional at one extant to threat of piracy, terrorism, smuggling, trafficking and hybrid type to other extant. The Indian Navy’s (IN’s) 2015 Maritime Security Strategy clearly enunciates security in the IOR as an unambiguous necessity for progression of national interests and it can thus be deduced that maritime security would continue to drive the government’s policies and navy’s strategy in times to come. -
National Recognition of Our Armed Forces
Report of Inquiry into National Recognition of our Armed Forces Report to the Prime Minister by: Quentin Davies MP Bill Clark OBE Ministry of Defence Air Commodore Martin Sharp OBE MA RAF Report of Inquiry into National Recognition of our Armed Forces Report to the Prime Minister by: Quentin Davies MP Bill Clark OBE Ministry of Defence Air Commodore Martin Sharp OBE MA RAF May 2008 Foreword Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP One of the greatest privileges I’ve enjoyed since becoming Prime Minister has been to spend time with the extraordinarily skilled and dedicated men and women of our Armed Forces, and to visit them on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their courage, their service and their professionalism make an immeasurable contribution both to building peace and stability around the world and to protecting our nation here at home. The Government is acutely aware of the debt we owe our Armed Forces, and our gratitude for the work they do in the service of our country is reflected in our recent initiatives on pay, on tax-free bonuses, on housing and on health care, as well as in our decision to commission a Command Paper on conditions of service and quality of life, which we will be publishing this summer. But beyond these individual initiatives, important though they are, it is vital for our serving men and women, especially those engaged in difficult and dangerous overseas campaigns, to know that the whole of Britain understands and appreciates the work that they do in our name. I believe the British public are fully behind the men and women of our Armed Forces, and people want to do more to pay tribute to them.