Farooq Ahmad Dar is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad from where he obtained his PhD in History. He has been a Charles Wallace Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. His area of interest is the modern history of South Asia. Besides publishing numerous research articles in reputed journals, he has also authored a book titled Communal Riots in the Punjab, 1947 (2003). He has presented papers in national and international conferences, workshops