Nothing in his past activities, except his general distinction, has suggested that he was equipped to take on the issue of interpretations of jihad in South Asia. Amongst the many distinctions he was awarded along the way were: the first Pakistan Chair at Berkeley, University of California the Directorship of the National Institute of Pakistan Studies at Quaid-i Azam University, Islamabad and a Lifetime Achievement award from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. His most recent major monograph in this was From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History (2011). He then moved on to consider issues of language more generally in the Pakistan context. After spending most of the third decade of his life in the Pakistan army, he resigned his commission to focus on English literature and Linguistics. Tariq Rahman is one of Pakistan’s most distinguished scholars.
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