## **Charity Registration No. 1179415** **Trustees’ Annual Report For the year ended 31 July 2025** 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 - Dr 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 online on 4 November 2024. 3 ## **Review of the year 1 August 2024 to 31 July 2025** Bloomsbury Pakistan has continued to work in accordance with its goals and aims during the year. Its activities during the year fall into the following categories: - i) Book Reviews - ii) Book Prize 4 ## **i) Book Reviews** http://www.bloomsburypakistan.org/publications/ **1) The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan** by Dr Arsalan Khan, Cornell University Press 2024, 223pp **Reviewed by: Dr Suvaid Yaseen, Brown University (4 July 2025)** **2) Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan** by Dr Taha Kazi. Indiani University Press 2021, 226pp **Reviewed by: Dr Zainab Alam, Howard University (13 June 2025)** 5 **- 3) Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu Muslim Friendship After Empire** by Dr SherAli Tareen. Columbia University Press 2023, 360pp **Reviewed by: Dr Tariq Suleman, PhD (SOAS) (30 May 2025)** **4) Master Plans and Encroachments The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad** by Dr Faiza Moatasim. University of Pennsylvania Press 2023, 248pp **Reviewed by: Dr Aisha Ahmad, LUMS (9 May 2025)** 6 **5) Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan** by Dr Waqas H. Butt. Stanford University Press 2023, 225pp **Reviewed by: Dr Nida Kirmani, LUMS (28 March 2025)** **– 6) Sindh Under the Mughals: Origin and Development of Historiography (1591 1737 CE)** by Dr Humera Naz. Oxford University Press 2023, 254pp **Reviewed by: Dr Shayan Rajani, Michigan State University (7 February 2025)** 7 **7) Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing** by Prof Amina Yaqin. Anthem Press 2021, 294pp **Reviewed by: Dr Nukhbah Langah, University of Malaya (14 February 2025)** **- 8) The Ritual of Elections in Pakistan (1970 2018): A Process without a Product** by Dr Ijaz Shafi Gilani. Lightstone Publishers 2024, 255pp **Reviewed by: Dr Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany – SUNY (31 January 2025)** 8 **9) Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857-1940s** by Dr Eve Tignol. Cambridge University Press 2023, pp263 **Reviewed by: Dr S. Akbar Zaidi, IBA (Karachi) (17 January 2025)** **10) Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan** by Dr Niloufer Siddiqui. Cambridge University Press 2022, pp272 **Reviewed by: Dr Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick (20 December 2024)** 9 **11) Re-centering the Sufi Shrine: A Metaphysics of Presence** by Dr Irfan Moeen Khan. De Gruyter 2023, 242pp **Reviewed by: Dr Ali Gibran Siddiqui, IBA (Karachi)** ( **29 November 2024)** **12) Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality** by Dr Shenila Khoja-Moolji. Oxford University Press 2023, 409pp **Reviewed by: Dr Shama Dossa, Habib University (27 September 2024)** 10 **13) Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition** by Dr Shahla Hussain. Cambridge University Press 2021, 392pp **Reviewed by: Dr Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania (23 August 2024)** **14) Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia** by Prof Edward Simpson **.** Hurst Publishers 2022, 352pp **Reviewed by: Prof Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi, University of Fribourg (9 August 2024)** 11 IR) BOOK PIUZE 2024 Bloomsbur BLOOMSBURY PAKISTAN BOOK PRIZE SHORTLIST2024 In￿15 of the IMcDDial EFUG£E CITIES ELIG ON. ,Pug.Ll INTIM SAll2* Alimi Refugtt Citie& How Afglwts Ckngt4 Q￿tr comp￿10￿& RcligTh. P￿bIl¢ ltttith*o". aThl SaiThili" Affects ID Paki5t4ll. Duke Utiiversity 2022. Utsiversity of Peuo5ylvaDia Pte55. 2022. We extend our con￿atUlatIO1]s io Co-winnets. Sana Alithia and Omar Kasmani for their exttllent tontTibutiO]ts to the Study of Pakista￿. 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(optional)| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||Signature|||Date of approval| |||||| |||Nadir Cheema||01/09/2025| |||||| |||||| |||Dr David Taylor||01/09/2025| **March 2012: new format January 2017** **CC16a**