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Pakistan National Security is directly related to a mix of Islamic precepts and the implications of contemporary real politics. Initially modern theories were a philosophical response to priesthood of the time hedging Christianity for their own predominance. With the advent of Islam the West applied the same antipathy to the faith of Islam and later it impacted Muslim states and Regions. The West however, circumvented religion as historical legacy representing Christianity. Pakistan being part of wider Muslim world is prone to historically prejudiced; direct and indirect threats based on Modern political theories. Modern theories are Euro-centric owing to their war prone regional history. Islamic Security concepts characterize trans-border implication. Modern political and security perspective are based on; personal experience of the people gone through wars and civil chaos whereas Islamic concept of just war is based on faith absolutes and Meta narratives1. Modern theories imply human nature as a pivot to craft response in anticipation of a predetermined threat to justify pre-emption. Modern theories have become the seed of modern state policies. Islam makes it obligatory to prepare and built power to first deter and retaliate only under tyranny, oppression and under the threat of expulsion and extermination. Pakistan military initiative are deemed inspired by Islamic concept of Jihad and have become cause of her Security Dilemma due to prejudiced Western view. Islam emphasis on mankind as one whole universal community called 'Ummah'. The modern theories divide the world on National identifies and globalizes only trade and transactions. National Interest in modern theories is pivotal to the state policies. This marked difference is sometime purposely confused as a strategy to dub even a legitimate resistance or movement as Terrorism depending on National Interest expediency. The major cause of conflict is embedded in Islamic and modern political connotations of a just war. These polemical perspectives explain ...

With the gradual reduction in trade barriers led by the
process of globalisation, more emphasis is now being placed on promoting
export competitiveness. Asia is the home of many of the world's top rice
exporters. The food-price crisis has divided Asia into "rice haves" and
"rice have-nots". In order to describe the processes involved in
securing and maintaining international competitiveness in rice exports,
the present study has used the Balassa and White indices of revealed
comparative advantage and revealed competitive advantage respectively.
Results have revealed that Pakistan is the most competitive country in
rice trade and ranks first in both agricultural product trade and total
merchandise exports. JEL classification: C12, C43, Q17 Keywords: Asian
Countries, Competitiveness, Revealed Comparative Advantage, Revealed
Competitive Advantage.