Pakistan Reader

August 2017 | Analysis

Three Options for India & Pakistan

The cynic in us would highlight that there is nothing to cheer about in the Indo-Pak relations during the last seventy years. While it is easy to look back and analyse what has gone wrong between the...

Soceity

Jirga and Gender Violence

August 2017 | Analysis

Perhaps, the emergence of a middle class in Pakistan is also playing a role in cornering the feudal hierarchy, thereby forcing them to react to protect their position within. For long, the societies have remained feudal

Politics

The Sharif Verdict

August 2017 | Analysis

What next? What would be individual Endgames for these actors? And where would these individual Endgames collectively take Pakistan into?. A section within Pakistan feels that this judgement – disqualifying a sitting Prime Minister (though some talk in terms of a “judicial coup”) as a new great beginning for the judiciary and accountability for Pakistan; this section also expects the Supreme Court to continue and expand further. And the elephant in the room- the military has been quiet.

Society

Pashtunwali, Kashmiriyat and Sufi: Are our Social Codes under Stress?

July 2017 | Analysis

Our social codes have protected us so far, and have made us unique. It is our turn to secure them and ensure, it continues to keep our future generations sound, social and humane. We need to invest our time and our intellect to analyse what is happening around. We also need to forecast, where we are heading towards. If we realise, our present is going to impinge on our future, then we have to make cold calculations and ask tough questions.

Sectarian

July 2017 | Analysis

Pakistan's Parachinar Problem

Panama Politics

July 2017 | Analysis

Towards a PML minus Sharif?

The Panama Politics

June 2017 | Forecast

JIT: What Next for Nawaz Sharif?

Afghanistan

June 2017 | Analysis

Afghan Common Ground

India-Pakistan

Doha to Astana: Insulate and Integrate

June 2017 | Analysis

SCO is a “happening” network with so much potential for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Both TAPI and CASA 1000 has its source in Central Asia, which forms the bulk of SCO. With China already making a huge investment with its One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, an innovative project could get the much needed funding for the above two projects relating to gas pipelines and electricity corridor.

Afghanistan

June 2017 | Analysis

Afghans’ Kabul Problem

Indo-Pak

May 2017 | Forecast

ICJ Verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav: Four Likely Pakistan Options

Terrorism

May 2017 | Comment

Fighting Taliban and the Islamic State: Don't prioritize

India-Pakistan

May 2017 | Comment

Indo-Pak Dialogue Options: Importance of Back Channel

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

Parachinar Sit-in Crisis comes to an end

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

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