Muhammad Manzoor Elahi Lecturer (W.E.F

CURRICULUM VITAE

Muhammad Manzoor Elahi Lecturer (w.e.f. Feb 23, 2010) Department of Political Science GC University Lahore, Pakistan

Postal Address: House # 9, Hajveery Park; Sardar Street, Allama Iqbal Road, Garhi Shahu, Lahore, Pakistan. Ofc. No: 111-000-010-351 Mob: +92-0321-4200550 Passport No. FU-1747241 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] National ID No. 35202-7467724-9 Degree Year M.Phil in Political Science Thesis Title: The Great Game Revisited in Central Asia: South Asia 2012 Education/ a Corridor (2000-2010) Masters in Political Science with Distinction 2008 Qualifications Bachelor of Arts (B.A) 2006 Faculty of Arts (F.A) 2004 Matriculation 2002 • Serving as Lecturer (BS-18) in the Department of Political Science, GC University Lahore, since February 23, 2010

• Appointed as Presiding Officer for Pakistan General Election 2013.

• Served as Visiting Faculty to Computer Science Department, GC University Experience Lahore, (September 2011-January 2012)

• Served as Research/Teaching Associate (BS-17) in the Department of Political Science, GC University Lahore, from January 17, 2009 to February 23, 2010.

• Served as Visiting Faculty to Engineering Department, GC University Lahore. (2010)

B.A Hons (Year-III): • Political System of China (PS-3106)

B.A Hons (Year-IV): Course • Pakistan and Its Periphery: A Geopolitical and Geostrategic Study (PS- 4104) Coordinator • Central Asian Studies (PS-4202)

M.A (Year-II) • International Organizations (PS-455) • Area Studies: Central Asian (PS-459)

• Old Ravians Union, GC University Lahore • S.O. Malick Political Science Alumni, GC University Lahore. Memberships • Lahore Political Science Association (LPSA)

Honors and • Academic Certificate of Merit” in Masters. Awards • “Best Performance Award” in co-curricular activities.

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Year Title 2012 Federation and National Integration in Pakistan: 1999-2008 2012 Governance and Democracy under Z. A. Bhutto Regime 2012 Regional Cooperation: A Case Study of SAARC. 2013 Succession Crisis and Great Game of Ideologies in the Twentieth Century Afghanistan. 2013 Geopolitics of Energy: A Case-study of IPI Gas Pipeline. 2014 FCR and Its Impact on Tribal Areas of Pakistan. 2014 Transformation of Jirga as a Dispute Settlement Mechanism in South Waziristan 2014 Pak-China Geostrategic Relations: Apropos to Gwadar Port. 2015 Rethinking Milbus in Bolochistan. 2015 Hazara Community in KPK: Challenges and Prospects. 2015 The New Silk Route: Chinese Perspective. 2016 Socio-Political Status of Third Gender in Pakistan: A Case Study of Lahore 2016 Political Development in FATA: Challenges and Prospects 2017 CPEC and Strategic Interests of Peripheral States: Iran, Afghanistan and India 2017 Russian Renewed Interest in South Asia B.A. Hons 2017 Chinese Strategic Interests in Middle East 2018 An Analysis of Policy Shift in Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia M.A and M.Phil 2018 OBOR and Chinese Security Concerns in Afghanistan Research 2018 OBOR and China’s Look West Strategy: Apropos of Central Asia Supervision 2019 Transformation of Global Governance to Regional Governance in 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects 2019 Politics of Inclusiveness in Afghanistan during Ashraf Ghani Period 2019 Human Trafficking in in Pakistan: An Analysis of Pull and Push Factors. 2020 Kartarpur Corridor: Opening of Peace between India and Pakistan

Degree: M. Phil

Year Title 2012 Pakistan’s Security Challenges: 2001-2013. 2013 China’s Quest for Regional Cooperation: A Case Study of SCO. 2015 Chinese OBOR Strategy: A Case Study of South Asia 2016 Regional Governance and SCO: Prospects for Pakistan 2016 Regional Dynamics and Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: (Re)Structuring relations with USA and China (2010-2017) 2017 Framing of Indian Media on CPEC: Content Analysis of Print Media 2018 Energy Security of Pakistan: A Case Study of Energy Projects Under CPEC 2019 Developmental Aspects of BRI with reference to Xinjiang (China) and Balochistan (Pakistan) 2020 (Re-)conceptualizing Connectivity: Analyzing Energy Policy of China Under BRI. • Departmental Coordinator, Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC), GC University Lahore. • Departmental Focal Person of Career Guidance and Placement Centre, GC University Lahore. • In charge Departmental Library Service Activity • Coordinator External Links, Department of Political Science, GC University Lahore. • Departmental Focal Person, Academic and Research Linkages between GC University, Lahore and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. • Coordinator of International Conference on Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects- (ICHRCP) November 7-9, 2018, at GC University Lahore, Pakistan.

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• Focal Person of International Conference on Inter-Regional Connectivity: South Asia and Central Asia” held on 9-11 November, 2016 at GC University, Lahore. • Incharge, Saeed Osman Malick Political Science Alumni, GC University Lahore. • Coordinator Departmental Sports • Coordinator Departmental Finance • Member of Conference Organizing Committee for 3 International Conferences. • Departmental Controller of Examinations (2012-2015) • In charge Departmental Timetable (2012-2015) • Coordinator B.A (Hons) Dissertations (2012-2015) • Coordinator Departmental Academic Committee (2012-2015)

Brief Statement Area Studies: South & Central Asia; Energy Security, Energy Governance, Securitization of Research Theory, Regionalism, Peace and Conflict, Connectivity Discourse - BRI, International Interest Relations, Geopolitics

Books/Edited Work:

Prof. Dr. Khalid Manzoor Butt and Muhammad Manzoor Elahi, eds., Proceedings of International Conference on Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects-ICHRCP (Lahore, GC University, 2018). ISBN: 978-969-9071-09-6 (hbk) & ISBN: 978-969-9071-10-2 (pbe) http://ps.gcu.edu.pk/proceedings-of-international-conference-on-human-rights- challenges-and-prospects/

Prof. Dr. Khalid Manzoor Butt and Muhammad Manzoor Elahi, eds., Proceedings of International Conference on Inter-Regional Connectivity: South Asia and Central Asia (Lahore, GC University, 2016), ISBN: 978-969-9071-07-2 http://ps.gcu.edu.pk/proceedings-of-international-conference-on-inter-regional- connectivity-south-asia-and-central-asia/

Research Articles: Research Work/ “Geopolitics of OBOR and (Re-) thinking Connectivity Discourse: Apropos of South Publications Asia” The Journal of Political Science, Vol-XXXVII, 2019. (ISSN-1726-6467) http://ps.gcu.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/7.-Geo-politics-of-OBOR-and-Re- thinking-connectivity-Discourse-Apropos-of-South-Asia-by-Muhammad-Manzoor- Ellahi.pdf

“Pakistan's Economic Interests in Central Asia: Prospects and Challenges in Regional Perspective”, Central Asian: Journal of Area Study Centre (Russia, China and Central Asia), Issue no. 79, Winter-2016. ISSN-1729-9820. http://journals.uop.edu.pk/papers/02%20Hashmatullah.pdf

“Pipelinistan and Geopolitics of Energy Security: South Asia’s Peripheral Options”, Conference Proceedings of “International Conference on Inter-Regional Connectivity: South Asia and Central Asia”, 9-11 November, 2016. ISBN: 978-969- 9071-07-2 http://ps.gcu.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Proceediings-2016.pdf

Page 3 of 5 “Heartland and Rimland Doctrines in CPEC Perspective: Strategic Interplay in 21st Century” published in Conference Proceedings of “International Conference on CPEC” held on 9-10 December, 2015. ISBN: 978-969-23076-2-8 http://ps.gcu.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/5.pdf

“Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency in India” (Part II), Issue: January 2010 India Desk. Pakistan Study Center, University of the Punjab. https://indiadesk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/a-rejoinder-by-amit-ranjan-of-jawaharlal- nehru-university.docx

“Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency in India” (Part I), Issue: December 2009 India Desk. Pakistan Study Center, University of the Punjab. https://indiadesk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/indian-insurgency-m-elahi-dec-report- 2009.pdf Research Grant by ECO-Educational Institute, Ankara, Turkey for research paper titled, “Revival of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) via Energy Connectivity” (September 27-28, 2019)

HEC Grant to present research paper titled, “Geopolitics of OBOR and Chinese Connectivity Power in South Asia's Perspective” in International Conference at University of Shanghai, China. (November 24-25, 2018) Other Research or Creative Coordinator of “International Conference on Human Rights: Challenges and Prospects Accomplishments (ICHRCP), held on November 7-9, 2018, at GC University Lahore.

Focal Person of “International Conference on Inter-Regional Connectivity: South Asia & Central Asia” held on November 9-11, 2016 at GC University Lahore.

“The Great Game Redux in Central Asia: South Asia a Corridor” M.Phil Research Thesis, (2012) Department of Political Science, GC University Lahore

A Research Report “Voting Behavior: Why Voting Turnout is Low in Pakistan (2009)”

Two Day National Open Workshop on “Getting Aligned to the Publishing Process”- Scopus + Science Direct at Elsevier, on Monday 28 September, 2020

Two Day National Open Workshop on "Getting Aligned to the Publishing Process" Author Workshop at Elsevier, on Friday 25 September, 2020

Symposium on Common Legacies: Cultural and Historical Connectivities in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, September 25-27, 2019, organized by ECO Educational Institute, Ankara, Turkey.

Conferences/ Political Science Symposium, April 30, 2019, organized by Department of Political Seminars/ Science & Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore. Symposiums/ Workshops Dynamics of Countering Human Trafficking in South Asia December 21-23, 2018 organized by Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad in collaboration with American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Avari Hotel Lahore.

1st International Conference on China and South Asia, November 24-25, 2018, organized by Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

International Confernce on Human Right: Challenges and Prospects (ICHRCP) held on November 7-9, 2018, at GC University Lahore, Pakistan.

International Conference on Threats to Security in the 21st Century: Finding a Global Way Forward, held on May 5-6, 2018, at University of Lahore (UoL), Pakistan. Page 4 of 5

International Conference on Migration and Displacement, held on 14-15 November, 2017 at GC University, Lahore, Pakistan.

International Conference on "The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics on the Borderland" organized by the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, in collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan held on 20-22 August 2017.

“International Conference on Central Asia: Time and Space; Conflict and (Dis) Integration” held on 18-21 July, 2017 at Area Study Centre (Russia, China and Central Asia) University of Peshawar, Pakistan.

“International Conference on Inter-Regional Connectivity: South Asia and Central Asia” held on 9-11 November, 2016 at GC University, Lahore.

“Policy Dialogue on Inclusive Higher Education Conference” held on January 29, 2016 at LUMS.

“International Conference on CPEC” held on 9-10 December, 2015 at GC University, Lahore.

“International Conference on Local Representation of Power in South Asia”, held on 12-14 November 2014 at GC University, Lahore.

“International Conference of History on Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab” held on November 17-18, 2014 at GC University, Lahore.

“DAAD Early Career Researchers Workshop on Conducting Governance Research” held on 14th march 2014 at the Higher Education Commission Regional Centre Lahore.

International Conference on Water Resource Governance in Indus Basin, held on 9-10 January 2013 at GC University, Lahore.

Three Days “Cascading Workshop on Ensuring Trainings’ Effectiveness” under the auspices of Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) & Higher Education Commission (HEC). From September 12, 2011 to September 15, 2011.

“Workshop On Strategic Issues: Pakistan, South Asia and Beyond” on February 5, 2011 arranged by LUMS-Stimson Center-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

“Working Evaluation of 13th National Assembly” on December 31, 2010 by PILDAT Pakistan.

Two Days Training Workshop on “Building Sustainable Research Networks” on April 4, 2010 under the auspices of Higher Education Commission (HEC) & British Council (BC), International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education (INSPIRE).

Departmental representative in the conference “International Law & Its Ratification” on Feb 25, 2010 under the auspicious of Research Society of International Law.

• Republic of Turkey. Country Visited • People’s Republic of China. • United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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