Pakistan Reader

May 2017 | Forecast

ICJ Verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav: Four Likely Pakistan Options

What options does Pakistan have now on the Jadhav case? First, it could go against the ICJ verdict, ignore it and move ahead to execute Jadhav. Second, Pakistan could postpone the execution and continue...

Terrorism

Fighting Taliban and the Islamic State: Don't prioritize

May 2017 | Comment

Islamic State in the region may be a smaller group when compared to the Taliban. But should the size matter, when fighting a militant group? Does the strength of matter while confronting a virulent ideology that is targeting the fundamental fabric of our society?

India-Pakistan

Indo-Pak Dialogue Options: Importance of Back Channel

May 2017 | Comment

Given the restrictions of track-I and track-II led dialogues as an option for the Prime Ministers to break the ice, and make substantial progress, perhaps it is useful to invest in silent back channel diplomacy. Let us not demonize this option

India-Pakistan

De-securitizing the Indus

April 2017 | Comment

It is ironic, the rivers that defined the multiple civilizations in South Asia, are seen as a “problem” today in the region. The Indus, after which our ancient civilization is referred to has become a problem between India and Pakistan, and between provinces within Pakistan. How did the above change come about?

India-Pakistan

April 2017 | Comment

Cross-LoC Interactions: Low Hanging Kashmir Fruit

Cricket

April 2017 | Comment

Honouring Younis and Misbah

Water

April 2017 | Comment

Scarcity, Institutions, Securitization: Our “Other” Water Issues

Terrorism

April 2017 | Comment

Fighting the Daesh: A Regional Counter IS Strategy

Civil-Military

The Husain Huqqani Revelation

March 2017 | Comment

Did the civilian administration of Pakistan during Zardari’s tenure gave intelligence information to the US on Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country, leading to the latter’s killing? Was the Pakistani military establishment kept out of picture in this Islamabad-Washington collusion? Did Husain Huqqani, then the Pakistani Ambassador to US facilitate this?

Counter Terrorism

March 2017 | Brief

The Raddul Fasaad Fallouts: Will it succeed where Zarb-e-Azb failed?

Gender

March 2017 | Comment

Deep-rooted Misogyny: Offend her; she will forgive in the name of tradition

PIA

March 2017 | Comment

The Standing Passengers of PIA

External

February 2017 | Comment

Tehmina Janjua: Internal Challenges for the New Foreign Secretary

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

Photo Stories

Photo Source: The News

Pakistan launches 'Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad'

Photo Source: The Express Tribune

One more Sufi Shrine under suicide attack

Photo Source: Daily Times

Tehmina Janjua to take over as the first Woman Foreign Secretary

Photo Source: The Express Tribune

Suicide Terror in Lahore claims more than ten

Photo Source: The Express Tribune

Aman 2017: Multinational Naval Exercise

Photo Source: The News

Pakistan Super League 2017

Photo Source: The Express Tribune

Disappeared, Found, Disappeared

Photo Source: The News on Sunday

FATA: To Reform or Not

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