Round Table
Child Marriage Restraint Amendment Bill
Date: March 1, 2019
ISLAMABAD: The long anticipated Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill will create due recognition of child rights in Pakistan and provide a boost to advocacy efforts, stated legislators and child rights...
Round Table
FATA Merger: The Challenges Ahead
Date: November 29, 2018
Key takeaways from Jinnah Institute’s roundtable on ‘FATA Merger: The Challenges Ahead’ convened to discuss progress on the merger of erstwhile FATA districts with KP and the associated bottlenecks. Why...
Townhall
Citizenship & the Constitution: Rights and Inclusion
Date: November 28, 2018
With ever increasing human rights violations and curbs on fundamental freedoms, it is important to reassert the notion of citizenship in a democratic polity and underscore the demands that citizens...
Townhall
Social Media & Populist Nationalism
Date: November 27, 2018
Political systems across the world have undergone a wave of populism, and are hard pressed to balance majoritarian political demands against fundamental human rights. Nowhere is this contest more visible...
Townhall
Threat to our Future: Extremism in Seats of Learning
Date: November 6, 2018
Persistence of extremist ideologies owes to their laying claim to a single truth. Challenging such claims hinges on the ability to critically evaluate and deconstruct their arguments. Salient features of...
Round Table
The New Frontier: Exploring East-West Connectivity
Date: October 30, 2018
Pakistan needs to abandon short term security driven policy frameworks for connectivity for a long term approach that privileges domestic economic interests and commerce. This was the key takeaway from...
Townhall
Youth Politics & Policy
Date: October 10, 2018
Policy frameworks must imagine Pakistan’s youth cohort as an opportunity to innovate public policy discourse and revitalize an increasingly unimaginative political conversation according to speakers at Jinnah Institute’s University Town...
Round Table
Transgender Rights and Political Participation
Date: September 12, 2018
Encouraging strides have been made for transgender people’s rights in the legislature, but much needs to be done to increase their political participation and integration into society. This was the...
Charting a New Path: Pakistan and the Region
Date: August 31, 2018
Pakistan’s new government needs to practice quiet diplomacy in the region while focusing on improving governance metrics on internal challenges such as terrorism, extremism, and the mainstreaming of FATA. These...
Twitter Cafe
Jinnah Institute’s Twitter Café on #Shared History
Date: June 11, 2018
On 11/6/18 Jinnah Institute held a Twitter Café in Islamabad with the objective of connecting social media users in India and Pakistan with the hashtag #SharedHistory. The event aimed at...
