Pakistan Reader

Election 2018 Analysis - 04

August 2018 | Analysis

Pakistan's "Naya" Parliament: Five New Features

Pakistan's newly elected members of the National Assembly have taken their oath in the Parliament. Despite requiring few more numbers in the Parliament, Imran Khan is all set to become the next Prime...

Election 2018 Analysis - 03

The Fall of MQM

August 2018 | Analysis

Why did the MQM fail in urban Sindh, especially Karachi? On the other hand, one could see a rise in the PTI, in those areas where the MQM has faltered. Is the electoral decline of the MQM due to the rise of PTI and TLP in Karachi? Alternatively, does the MQM fall in Karachi highlights the new power dynamics in Pakistan’s largest city, and the electoral decline is only an expression of it? More importantly, what does the electoral decline of MQM mean to Mohajir politics, and also Karachi’s delicate power balance?

India Pakistan

Picking up the Indo-Pak Peace

August 2018 | Analysis

Will Imran Khan and Narendra Modi pick up the bilateral pieces and give peace a chance? Or, will the bilateral process remain a prisoner of the past, yielding to hawkish positions across the border in both the countries

Will Imran have sufficient space to pursue an independent foreign policy? Will the Deep State in Pakistan allow Imran to chart a new regional path? With a new PM in Pakistan now outside the PML and PPP, will the Indian security establishment take a fresh look at the bilateral peace process?

And are there low hanging fruits in the Indo-Pak context, that could be plucked first?

Election 2018 Analysis -02

The Tehreek-e-Labbaik: Rise of the Radical

August 2018 | Comment

The results of 2018 elections for the national and provincial assemblies highlights a new reality for the TLP. The party has made an electoral beginning. Though the number of seats that the TLP won is insignificant (two seats for the Sindh Provincial Assembly), this is a remarkable electoral debut.

Election 2018 Analysis -01

August 2018 | Comment

The Naya Pakistan: Five Major Trends

Elections 2018

July 2018 | Analysis

Likely Winners, Runners and Losers

Af-Pak

May 2018 | Analysis

Will Pakistan walk the Afghan Talk?

Balochistan

May 2018 | Analysis

Who is targeting the Hazara? And Why?

I'm Malala

Deciphering the anti-Malala Sentiment in Pakistan

April 2018 | Analysis

A young girl and Nobel laureate from a remote Swat, seems to bring the best and the worst among the Pakistanis. Why? Why does a section considers here as a hero and an inspiration, while others view her as an opportunist and a western conspiracy?

Afghanistan

March 2018 | Analysis

The Sectarian Spiral: Who and Why?

Politics

March 2018 | Analysis

The Senate Elections: What does the numbers mean?

PML-Shabhbaz

March 2018 | Analysis

Advantage PML-N under Shahbaz Sharif

Judicial Politics

February 2018 | Analysis

Nawaz Sharif, PML-N and the Judiciary

Pakistan and US

February 2018 | Analysis

Drones: American Arrogance and Pakistan’s Duplicity

Society

January 2018 | Analysis

Forgive us Zainab. We will forget you soon

External

January 2018 | Brief

US-Pak Relations: What has changed? What hasn't? And what is unlikely to?

India-Pakistan

January 2018 | Analysis

Will the Indo-Pak Relations improve in 2018?

Politics

January 2018 | Analysis

Saudi Arabia and the Sharifs: Is there a deal? If so, what does that mean?

External

January 2018 | Analysis

Pakistan’s Four Foreign Policy Challenges in 2018

Politics

November 2017 | Analysis

Islamabad Protests: Army Called Out. Seven Questions you want to know

Hafiz Saeed

November 2017 | Analysis

Hafiz Saeed’s Release:Pakistan's Weak Case between Politics, Legality and International Obligations

Pakpedia

PR Backgrounders

Economy

Pakistan’s Current Account Deficit

Meenakshi Vishwanathan
External

Pakistan and the FATF: Economic Implications

Meenakshi Vishwanathan

Click here for more

News & Views

Reviews

Book

Theorizing an Anarchic Confrontation

January 2017 | Book

The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry

TV Paul ed
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Book

Pakistan: Muddling Through, Crisis by Crisis

December 2016 | Book

The Future of Pakistan

Stephen P. Cohen et al
Oxford University Press, 2011, 311 pages, Rs.695

Book

Sorry for the Normalcy. Hostilities will Continue

January 2017 | Book

Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum

Stephen Cohen
Brookings Institution Press, 2013, Hardcover ISBN: 978081572186

Document

Sectarianism: Pakistan's other Terror Problem

January 2017 | Document

"As Good as Dead"

Amnesty International
21 December 2016