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2022-07-31-accounts

Charity Registration No. 1179415

Trustees’ Annual Report For the year ended 31 July 2022

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Bloomsbury Pakistan – Social Science Research & Advocacy is a charity with registration no. 1179415 (The Charity Commission for England and Wales).

Its governing document is its constitution, drawn up and approved by the Trustees in 2018.

Mission

The object of the CIO is to promote education in Britain and Pakistan by raising public understanding about pressing social and intellectual challenges in Pakistan by: Public Lectures and panel discussions; Publishing Book reviews and reports on academic research; Dissemination of academic research through the social and mainstream media; Teacher Training Programmes in UK and Pakistan

Administrative Details

Address

Bloomsbury Pakistan 3a Drovers Way London N7 9FN admin@bloomsburypakistan.org www.bloomsburypakistan.org

Internal Auditor

Dr Farooq Bajwa Farooq Bajwa & Co Solicitors 45 Charles Street London W1J 5EH

Accounts prepared by

Mr Raheel Sheikh Fintell Ltd Chartered Certified Accountant 13, King George Crescent Wembely, HA0 2FG

Banker

Barclays Bank UK Plc Holborn Branch 326-328 High Holborn London WC1V 7PE

Sort Code: 20-41-50 Account No: 73338762

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Structure, Governance and Management

Officers (Trustees) and Executive Committee

The managing body of the Charity is the Executive Committee, which consists of nine Officers (Trustees) The assets of the charity, including any money standing to the credit of the Society in any bank account and the right to deal with the same, vest in the Trustees. The Officers and the Executive Committee are unpaid and work on a voluntary basis.

Members of the executive committee (Trustees) are:

Chairman - Dr David Taylor Secretary - Mr Nadir Cheema Treasurer - Mr Tariq Khan Dr Nichola Khan Dr Stephen Lyon Dr Farooq Bajwa Dr Maria Rashid Dr Najam Abbas Dr Farid Panjwani Mr Zulfiqar Khimani Dr Ayaz Qureshi

Advisory Board:

Dr Tariq Rahman Mr Arif Hasan Dr Sarah Ansari Dr Matthew Nelson

Affiliates:

Dr Kaveri Qureshi Dr Umair Javed Dr Sameen Mohsin Dr Tayyab Safdar Dr Fatima Burney Dr Najia Mukhtar Dr Salman Rafi

During the reporting period, the Executive Committee (Trustees) met two times online on 10 November 2021 and 5 May 2022.

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Review of the year 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022

Bloomsbury Pakistan has continued to work in accordance with its goals and aims during the year despite reduced activity due to COViD restrictions. Its activities during the year fall into the following categories:

i) Book Reviews

ii) Events – Book Launches iii) Annual Lecture

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i) Book Reviews

http://www.bloomsburypakistan.org/publications/

  1. Property Taxes and State Incapacity in Pakistan by Dr M Mujtaba Piracha Oxford University Press 2021, 246pp. Reviewed by: Dr Ali Cheema (24 June 2022)

  2. We are Lovers of the Qalandar: Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam by Prof Islam Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

  3. Oxford University Press 2021, 192pp. Reviewed by: Dr Amen Jaffer (29 April 2022)

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  1. Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in

  2. Pakistan by Dr Shenila Khoja-Moolji

University of California Press 2021, 288pp. Reviewed by: Dr Tania Saeed (15 April 2022)

  1. Finding the Enemy Within: Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan by Dr Sana Ashraf

Australian National Press 2021, 270pp. Reviewed by: Prof Farhat Haq (1 April 2022)

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  1. The Punjab Borderland: Mobility, Materiality and Militancy, 1947-1987 by Dr Ilyas Chattha

Cambridge University Press 2022, 313pp Reviewed by: Dr Salman Khan

Edited by Prof Yasmin Saikia and Dr M. Raisur Rahman

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  1. The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India

by Dr Manan Ahmed Asif

Harvard University Press 2021, 336pp Reviewed by: Dr Zahra Shah

(14 January 2022)

  1. Youth and the National Narrative: Education, Terrorism and the Security

  2. State in Pakistan

by Prof Marie Lall and Dr Tania Saeed

Bloomsbury Publishing 2019, 224pp, Reviewed by: Prof Naureen Durrani

(5 November 2021)

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9. Siren Songs: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers

Oxford University Press 2020, 252pp, Reviewed by: Prof Neelam Hussain ( 22 October 2021)

  1. The Parliament of Pakistan: A History of Institution-Building and

  2. (Un)Democratic Practices, 1971-1977

by Prof Mahboob Hussain

Oxford University Press 2020, 332pp, Reviewed by: Prof Philip E. Jones

(8 October 2021)

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  1. India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh

by Dr Chris Moffat

Cambridge University Press 2019, 292pp, Reviewed by: Dr Ali Raza (24 September 2021)

  1. Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices

by Prof Anita M. Weiss

Oxford University Press 2021, 312pp, Reviewed by: Dr Umber Bin Ibad (10 September 2021)

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  1. A Leadership Odyssey:

Muslim Separatism and the Achievement of the Separate State of Pakistan

by Prof Sikandar Hayat

Oxford University Press 2021, 327pp. Reviewed by: Prof Tariq Rahman (27 August 2021)

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ii) Events

http://www.bloomsburypakistan.org/events/

Book Launch: Pakistan Left Review: Then and Now

Speaker: Prof Amin Mughal, Prof Salima Hashmi, Prof Kamran Asdar Ali (via Zoom) Prof Stephen Lyon and Nadir Cheema held on 21 October 2022 More details and video of the lecture.

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iii) Annual Lectures:

Asma Jahangir Lecture 2022 – Role of Judiciary in Upholding Democratic Rights and Processes

Speaker: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Chair: Prof Martin Lau, SOAS, Introduction: Ms Sulema Jahangir. Justice Qazi Faez Isa is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Professor Martin Lau is the Professor of South Asian Law at SOAS University of London . Ms Sulema Jahangir is a partner at Dawson Cornwall law firm in London and a board member of AGHS – Asma Jahangir’s Law Firm in Pakistan. She specialises in family law, constitutional law, and human rights cases. on 8 March 2022. More details and video of the lecture.

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Annual Bacha Khan Lecture 2022: Pashtun Women and Education

Speakers: Dr Wiqar Ali Shah is the former Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University. He is the author of several books. His research focuses on Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Khudai Khidmatgars, gender, tribal areas and Afghanistan. He was awarded PhD from the University of Oxford. Discussant: Dr James Caron is an academic at SOAS. His academic research is on Pakhtuns, Pushto literature and history & politics of the region. Chair: Dr Mukulika Banerjee is an academic at LSE. Banerjee was awarded her doctorate from the University of Oxford where she worked on Bacha Khan, published as the book ‘The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier’. Introduction: Mr Ziauddin Yousafzai is from Swat, Pakistan. He is an activist and works on girls’ education. More details and video of the lecture

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Receipts and Payments Accounts

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Section A
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Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£		 Total funds
to the nearest
£		 Last year
to the nearest
£
Donations 3800
Sub total
A2 Asset and investment sales, etc
Total receipts
A3 Payments
Bank Charges 95.64
Software 127.12
Travel - Guest Speaker 1483
Hotel - Guest Speaker
 925.07
~~Dinner- with Guest Speaker~~ 268.5
Other Admin - PLF 13
887.67
Sub total
A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
887.67
4052.96
4940.63

March 2012: new format January 2017

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Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Section B

Details
B1 Cash funds
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Details
B2 Other monetary assets
Details
B3 Investment assets
Details
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use
Details
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
Signature
Current Account		 Details Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£
Current Account 4940.63
Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£
Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost
(optional)		 Current value
(optional)
Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost
(optional)		 Current value
(optional)
Details Fund to which
liability relates		 Amount due
(optional)		 When due
(optional)
Signature Date of approval
Nadir Cheema ~~01/12/2022~~
Dr David Taylor 01/12/2022

March 2012: new format January 2017

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