Pakistan Reader

Election 2018 Analysis -02

August 2018 | Comment

The Tehreek-e-Labbaik: Rise of the Radical

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...

Election 2018 Analysis -01

The Naya Pakistan: Five Major Trends

August 2018 | Comment

PTI providing an alternative to the PML factions in Punjab should be one of the most significant development of the 2018 elections. The most critical aspect of the PTI’s rise – its performance in Punjab – the heartland of Pakistan, and the backyard of the PML-N. Not only for the seats for the Parliament from Punjab, but also for the provincial assembly, the PTI’s performance is phenomenal

Elections 2018

Likely Winners, Runners and Losers

July 2018 | Analysis

Will Imran be able to break through Shahbaz’s defence in Punjab? This will decide whether Imran would become the next PM or not. Punjab holds the key. And Shahbaz’s hold over the province gives him and the PML-N a slight edge.

Af-Pak

Will Pakistan walk the Afghan Talk?

May 2018 | Analysis

Those who would like to reshape the Afghan policy and willing to walk the Afghan talk within Pakistan do not wield real power, and those who have, do not have the will.

Balochistan

May 2018 | Analysis

Who is targeting the Hazara? And Why?

I'm Malala

April 2018 | Analysis

Deciphering the anti-Malala Sentiment in Pakistan

Afghanistan

March 2018 | Analysis

The Sectarian Spiral: Who and Why?

Politics

March 2018 | Analysis

The Senate Elections: What does the numbers mean?

PML-Shabhbaz

Advantage PML-N under Shahbaz Sharif

March 2018 | Analysis

The PML-N is likely to gather strength under Shahbaz Sharif and face the forthcoming elections from a position of strength, despite the loss of Nawaz. Shahbaz has been the face of the PML-N in Punjab and the Chief Minister of the province, where the party has more presence than rest of Pakistan.

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

Balochistan

November 2017 | Analysis

The Slow Burn in Balochistan: One Province, Five Actors, Multiple Issues

Politics

November 2017 | Analysis

Karachi-minus-MQM:Will the Establishment's Plan Succeed?

Politics

November 2017 | Analysis

The TLY paralyses Islamabad and Rawalpindi: Rise of the Right, or the use of it?

Pakpedia

PR Backgrounders

Economy

Pakistan’s Current Account Deficit

Meenakshi Vishwanathan
External

Pakistan and the FATF: Economic Implications

Meenakshi Vishwanathan

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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