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            Chapter 3   Education Reform in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects                                           57

                 Pervez Hoodbhoy                   

3.1     Organisational Structure of Education                                                                                   58

3.2       Pakistan’s School Education                                                                                                 61

3.3  Pakistani Higher Education                                                                                                  74

                   3.4  Conclusion                                                                                                                        93

 

            Chapter 4     Women, Violence and Rights: The Case of Pakistan                                                               95

                   Jennifer Bennett and Saima Jasam

4.1  The Concept of Patriarchy                                                                                                   96

                   4.2  The Nation of Violence                                                                                                        97

                   4.3   Disciplinary Power                                                                                                             98

                   4.4   Cultural Violence and Informal Law                                                                                     99

                   4.5   Parallel Judicial System in Pakistan                                                                                    100

                   4.6   Woman and the Process of Islamisation                                                                             104

4.7  Conclusion                                                                                                                      122

4.8  Reconnebdations                                                                                                              124

         

            Chapter 5     Dilemmas of Water and Human Security                                                                                   127

                        Abrar Kazi

                   5.1  Recognition of Water as a Source of Common Good                                                             129

                   5.2  Water and Human Security Nexus                                                                                      132

                   5.3  The Pakistan-India Water Conflict                                                                                       137

                   5.4  The Dispute within Pakistan                                                                                               145

                   5.5  Conclusion and Policy Proposals                                                                                        156

 

 

            Chapter 6     Pakistan’s Food Security: Unnecessary Risks and                                                               163

                        Potential Prospects

                        Nazma Sadeque

                   6.1  Primacy of Food Security                                                                                                   170

                   6.2  Role of International Agencies in Food Security                                                                   172

                   6.3  Planned Hunger and Dependence                                                                                       174

                   6.4  The Path to Food Insecurity in Pakistan                                                                              178

                   6.5  Agriculture and Food Insecurity: Global Entrappings                                                            185

                   6.6  Food in Global Trade                                                                                                        188

                   6.7  Spending More to Get Less                                                                                                189

                   6.8  Intellectual Property Rights:

                          Outdoing the Laws Against Monopoly                                                                                 191

                   6.9  The Danger of Lost Agricultural Biodiversity                                                                        192

                  6.10  Possibilities and Existing Solutions                                                                                     196

 

 

            Chapter 7     Poverty: The Irony of Development                                                                                            203

                                 Jennifer Bennett and Maha Janhangir

                   7.1  Pakistan: Trends in Poverty                                                                                               205

                   7.2  Macroeconomic Trends                                                                                                     216

                   7.3  National Policies for Poverty Reduction                                                                               218

                   7.5  Conclusion and Recommendations                                                                                     224

 

              Index                                                                                                                                         227