Issues & Challenges in SAARC Countries

The editors of this collection Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, former Director of the Centre for south Asian studies and Ms. Naheed S. Goraya, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies deserve praise for their efforts to bring together such a diverse body of opinion from learned scholars or development practitioners from the region. I hope this collection of essays proves beneficial to a wider audience of believers in humanity and the skeptics alike.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saleem Mazhar is Chairman, Department of Persian, University of the Punjab, Lahore. His research interests are social, cultural and literary relations of South and Central Asia. He has authored and edited several books and has widely published articles journals on South Asia, particularly Afghanistan and Central Asia.