Talk:Institute of Policy Studies (Pakistan)

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Kautilya3 I have to agree with NadirAli here. There is no need for hairsplitting. When a third party source says its independent then that is enough. If you don't know what independent means then I have to direct you to WP:CIR. JosephusOfJerusalem (talk) 06:09, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No need to bring NadirAli into the picture. It is your edit that is under discussion. Pluto Journals is hardly a third party. It is the publishing partner of IPS. Third party sources are careful enough to label it as a Jamaat institution: [1], [2], [3]. A more detailed reading here:

After leaving Saudi Arabia in 1988, Helbawy went on to become the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘ambassador’ to the leaders of various Afghan mujahideen groups fighting the Soviets. Among the Afghan leaders he had dealings with were Burhanuddin Rabbani, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmed Shah Masood. Helbawy was based in Pakistan where the Brotherhood helped to manage the Institute of Policy Studies, a centre run jointly with the Jamaat-e-Islami. Islamist volunteers from around the world would pass through the institute en route to do relief work or to fight on the front line. The centre had been established in 1979 by Professor Khurshid Ahmad, who by then was splitting his time between Pakistan and the Islamic Foundation in Leicester. Among Helbawy’s other acquaintances were Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden.(Bowen, Inside British Islam 2014, p. 105)

and here:

Intellectuals and writers are among the JI's most valuable assets. It was the first religious party to include Western-educated academics, a policy that dates to the Jamaat-military alliance during the Cold War. Pro-Jamaat intellectuals, many educated in the U.S., dominate social science research. Intellectuals with past or active affiliations with the JI run research organisations such as the Institute of Policy Studies (Islamabad).[47] (Pakistan: The Mullahs and the Military. ICG. 2003.)

"Independent" is an oxymoron in this context. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]