PAKISTAN, a country of subcontinent

I INTRODUCTION  Pakistan, officially Islamic Republic of Pakistan, republic in South Asia, marking the area where South Asia converges with Southwest Asia and Central Asia. The capital of Pakistan is Isl.  The area of present-day Pakistan was the cradle of the earliest known civilization of South Asia, the Indus Valley civilization (2500?-1700 bc). The territory … Read more

The Third World: Improved or Engineered?

Mike Davis and his ideas of the effect of Western contact with the Third World varies greatly from that of P. T. Bauer.  Bauer, in his essay entitled “Western Guilt and Third World Poverty”, claims, “Since the middle of the 19th century commercial contacts established by the West have improved material conditions out of all recognition over … Read more