Legacies of Common Law: 'Crimes of honor' in India and Pakistan

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A comparative analysis of crimes of honor in India and Pakistan and an examination of appellate judgments from the two countries show the complex nature of the interaction between modernity and tradition by the governance of polities or state statutory bodies and the governance of communities or caste panchayats and jirgahs and the ensuing tensions. It is concluded that these diverse legacies of common law in India and Pakistan constantly reconstitute the relationship between the local, national and the global.

India, Interpretation and construction, Common law, Customary law

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Security dilemmas of nuclear-armed Pakistan

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This article discusses the implications of Pakistani nuclear proliferation on their national security. Internal problems include economic failure due to international sanctions and decades of poor economic planning; external implications involve the possibility of both a conventional and nuclear war with India, since tensions have increased due to Pakistani interventionist policies which are based on the erroneous belief that building a nuclear arsenal is a deterrent to Indian aggression

Pakistani foreign relations, Indian foreign relations, Military aspects, Nuclear weapons, National security

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Ethnic and sectarian violence and the propensity towards praetorianism in Pakistan

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Details of a study are given that focuses on Pakistan and its divided society, and on its decades of characteristic irresponsible and unaccountable leaderships. It also utilises the 'coercion thesis', put forth by scholars of Asian civil-military relations, which maintains that, the increase in utility of coercion will also lead to increase in the influence and saliency of praetorianism.

Evaluation, Duress (Law), Coercion (Law), Civil-military relations

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