State Bank Governor Dr Ishrat Hussain will launch the fifth issue of the South Asian Journal on Monday. The July-September issue focuses on electoral politics in South Asia.
The Journal is a quarterly scholarly magazine devoted to the study of South Asia. Published by Imtiaz Alam, secretary general of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), the Journal seeks to engage the best minds in South Asia and open issues to debate.
Realising that South Asia, as a region, needed better understanding and an effective platform on which to raise issues of concern and develop and analyse strategies, which would enable the people of South Asia to move effectively into the 21st century, the first issue of the Journal was launched in August 2003 so as to provide such a pluralist platform.
The South Asian Journal is distributed world-wide and has a diverse readership ranging from scholars to academics, journalists and policymakers in South Asia and the rest of the world.
The editorial team (which includes senior editors from all over South Asia) commissions select authors to write on issues, which confront South Asia and its countries.
With its first issue, 'Whither South Asia', the South Asian Journal hit the mark with scholars and policymakers all over South Asia for no other publication gives such a wide-variety of opinion and analyses on South Asia. With each successive issue, the publication has improved in quality and outreach.
The first four issues have focused on South Asia as a region, Religious Revivalism in South Asia, Security Issues in South Asia and South Asian Economy.
Imtiaz Alam, Editor of South Asian Journal, MB Naqvi, senior columnist, Zubeida Mustafa, Editor of Books and Authors (Dawn), Ghazi Salahuddin, senior columnist and Aamer Ahmed Khan, Editor of Herald, speak at the Journal launch at the Avari Towers.-PR