Focus and Scope

Pakistaniaat is a refereed, multidisciplinary, and open access academic journal offering a forum for a serious scholarly and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani history, culture, literature, and politics.

Though several existing journals do pay a fair degree of attention to the issues of South Asia and Postcoloniality, we feel that under the current climate of high capital and war on terror, Pakistan, often subsumed under the larger registers of South Asia or Postcolonial Studies, needs a particular space of its own in our academic and creative undertakings. Thus, Pakistaniaat aims to provide a public space on the Internet to introduce and discuss hitherto neglected aspects of Pakistani cultural and literary production and to make this knowledge available to a worldwide audience.

While we welcome Pakistan-related works from the metropolitan scholars and writers, we especially encourage scholars and writers from Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora to contribute their works so that we can also serve the important purpose of showcasing the quality and intellectual vigor of scholarly and literary works by Pakistanis.

 Pakistaniaat, thus, aims to provide an inclusive venue for all those interested in Pakistan's history, culture, and politics, and Pakistan's place in the region as well as in the world.

We define Pakistan not only as a cultural and political entity but also as a fluid concept. We, therefore, believe that Pakistan deserves a sensitive and compassionate synchronic and diachronic scholarly and artistic attention. We aim to accomplish this important mission of "covering Pakistan" by publishing scholarly articles, creative works, translations, and reviews of books about Pakistan.

Section Policies

Refereed Articles (مضامین)

Editors

• Masood Raja

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews (تبصرات)

Editors

• David Waterman

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Notes & Commentaries (اِنشایئےوتبصرات)

Editors

• Masood Raja

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Poetry and Prose (نظم و نثر)

Editors

• Deborah Hall
• Jana Russ

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Translations (تراجم)

Editors

• Mahwash Shoaib

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Interviews (انٹرویو)

Editors

• Masood Raja

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Notable Pakistan-Related Texts

We publish a list of notable texts (print, online, film, art etc.) in each issue. To recommend a text for inclusion in the list, please include a brief description of your item in an email to our review editor, David Waterman or use this Contact Form.

Editors

• David Waterman

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Urdu Works (اُردو ادب)

Editors

• Yousaf Alamgirian

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Issue on 1971 Indo-Pakistan War

Editors

• Cara Cilano

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Cluster: Fawzia Afzal-Khan's Lahore with Love

Editors

• Masood Raja

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Editors

• Amina Yaqin

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All scholarly articles submitted to Pakistaniaat are subjected to a blind review by two reviewers, a process in which the identities of authors and reviewers are not revealed to each other. Members of our Advisory Review Committee are primarily responsible for conducting the blind reviews. The review process usually takes from six to eight weeks but may take longer if the reviewers refer an article to a specialist.

Publication Frequency

Pakistaniaat publishes THREE issues per year (April, August, and December).  While we consider submissions on a rolling basis, the deadlines for specific issues are as follows:

• Spring Issue (April):            Deadline--Jan 15
• Summer Issue (August):      Deadline--May 15
• Autumn Issue (December):  Deadline--Sep 15

Archiving

Pakistaniaat utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Indexing and Abstracting

A member of The Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Pakistaniaat is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, MLA Directory of Periodicals, Ulrich's Periodical Directory, LivRe!, Genamics JournalSeek, Intute, New Jour,  Jurn, the Dirctory of Open Access Journals, and Open J-Gate.

Note on Plagiarism

We have a very strict policy on plagiarism. Simply stated, plagiarism happens when one presents someone else's work or ideas as one's own without providing a clear citation.

We will decline any works that contain plagiarized content. Plagiarism is a serious charge and we do not take it lightly. Our decision to decline a submission due to plagiarism will be final and cannot be appealed.

About Complimentary Print Copies

Listed below are some of the reasons for our inability to provide free print copies to our authors and supporters:

• Entire staff of Pakistaniaat offers their labor voluntarily and we feel it is only apt to raise some funds for the journal through the sale of our print copies.

• Pakistaniaat is first and foremost an open-access online journal. This means we provide free access to all our readers all over the world. We also do not charge any author or review fees (Some online journals do charge these fees to stay afloat).

• The print version was created as an alternative for those who might be interested in purchasing a print copy.

• The proceeds from the print sales are meant to support and underwrite our online free access.

• The print version is produced by a print-on-demand (POD) publisher; this means that each copy is produced when ordered. The journal does not have any extra copies at any time; in fact, we have to purchase the first “dummy” copy ourselves to make sure that everything is OK.

Advertisements

We can publish advertisements for books, insutitions, or academic programs in our print as well as online issues. With our worldwide circulation, your ad is likely to reach a large  audience of scholars, students, and readers. Listed below are some of the rates:

Full Page Ads:

• Individuals: $50.00
• Institutions/Publishers: $100.00

Half-Page Ads:

• Individuals: $25.00

• Institutions/Publishers: $50.00

Please contact the editor for details and to make payment arrangements.

General Disclaimer

The views presented in Pakistaniaat are those of the respective authors and should not be construed as the official views of anyone associated with the journal.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Pakistaniaat is also a signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.