RPC's Guest in Town Series: Mr Shahid Akhtar on November 13, 2025, at 4:00 pm

Conflict Resolution

Mr Shahid Akhtar, a scholar resident in Canada, has conducted detailed research, has long experience and has written and published on "Conflict Resolution". Conflicts are created in our lives due to varying circumstances, whether in business, private life, amongst friends and family, between countries and varying creeds and credos. Mr Shahid Akhtar will dilate on the subject and share his knowledge in this field at the Research and Publication Centre (RPC) as part of our Guest in Town Series.

Date and time: Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 4:00 pm. All friends are welcome. Lift is operational. The lecture will be followed by a Q & A session and then tea.

Address: Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd Floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom).

Rashed Rahman

Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)

Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)  

The October 2025 issue of Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) is out

The October 2025 issue of Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) is out. Link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com

Contents:

1. S Zulfiqar Gilani: Political Narrative of Pakistan: Problems, Costs, Challenges.

2. Vijay Prashad: It would be fine to help make Mexico a happy place.

3. Ray Nunes: From Marx to Mao – and After – II: Programme of the Cultural Revolution.

4. Thomas I Palley: A History: How the US exploited fractures in the post-Soviet Order – II.

5. Mahmood Mamdani: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism – III: Afghan jihad fed into global Islamic war.

6. Kriti Shah: The Baloch and Pashtun nationalist movements in Pakistan: Colonial legacy and the failure of state policy – IV: Nationalism, religion, political and economic representation.

7. Navid Shahzad: Pakistan Here and Now: The Language of the Heart – III: At the crossroads of poetry and politics.

Rashed Rahman

Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)

Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)