Brief Introduction to Some Featured Speakers for the 3rd Asia TEFL International Conference

Tariq RahmanTariq Rahman earned his Ph.D in English from theUniversity of Sheffield in England.He did his post-doctoral research as a Fulbright scholar(1995-96)in the USA.He is presently National DistinguishedProfessor at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad,Pakistan.Dr.Rahman is a highly published scholar havingmore than eighty research papers in academic journals and six booksto his credit.He is considered an authority on the politics and historyof languages and language policy in Pakistan.His book Language andPolitics in Pakistan(Oxford University Press,1996)is regarded as aclassic in the field and has been reprinted four times.His latest bookDenizens of Alien Worhls(Oxford University Press,2004)is on