## **Charity Registration No. 1179415** **Trustees’ Annual Report For the year ended 31 July 2022** 1 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 2 ## **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. 3 ## **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 4 ## **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 - Oxford University Press 2021, 192pp. **Reviewed by: Dr Amen Jaffer** (29 April 2022) 5 3. **Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in** - **Pakistan** by Dr Shenila Khoja-Moolji University of California Press 2021, 288pp. **Reviewed by: Dr Tania Saeed** (15 April 2022) 4. **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) 6 5. **The Punjab Borderland: Mobility, Materiality and Militancy, 1947-1987** by Dr Ilyas Chattha Cambridge University Press 2022, 313pp **Reviewed by: Dr Salman Khan** - (4 March 2022) 6. **The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan** Edited by Prof Yasmin Saikia and Dr M. Raisur Rahman - Cambridge University Press 2019, 292pp, **Reviewed by: Prof S. Akbar Zaidi** (18 February 2022) 7 7. **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) 8. **Youth and the National Narrative: Education, Terrorism and the Security** - **State in Pakistan** by Prof Marie Lall and Dr Tania Saeed Bloomsbury Publishing 2019, 224pp, **Reviewed by: Prof Naureen Durrani** (5 November 2021) 8 **9. Siren Songs: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers** - by Prof Fawzia Afzal-Khan Oxford University Press 2020, 252pp, **Reviewed by: Prof Neelam Hussain (** 22 October 2021) 10. **The Parliament of Pakistan: A History of Institution-Building and** - **(Un)Democratic Practices, 1971-1977** by Prof Mahboob Hussain Oxford University Press 2020, 332pp, **Reviewed by: Prof Philip E. Jones** (8 October 2021) 9 11. **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) 12. **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) 10 13. **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) 11 ## **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. s 12 ## **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. 13 ## **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 14 ## Receipts and Payments Accounts **----- Start of picture text -----**
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