Policy Brief
LoC: Where Stability Is a Work in Progress
by: Adina Wajid
Date: April 16, 2025
The Line of Control (LoC) remains a persistent flashpoint in India-Pakistan relations, where periodic military confrontations and tactical escalations serve as a reminder of just how fragile the peace is....
Policy Brief
Managing Escalations: Upgrading CBMs
by: Prof. Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Date: March 22, 2025
The nuclear competition between India and Pakistan continues to shape the South Asia’s strategic landscape, exacerbated by technological advancements, geopolitical shifts, and a lack of sustained dialogue. While both countries...
Policy Brief
Unmanned, Unchecked: Tech-Driven Instability in South Asia
by: Adil Sultan
Date: March 14, 2025
Emerging military technologies are transforming conflict dynamics in South Asia, introducing new risks to strategic stability between India and Pakistan. Drones, AI-driven warfare, and cyber capabilities are lowering the threshold...
Policy Brief
A Border Too Close for Business: The Case of Indo-Pak Trade
by: Nyle Murad, Arifa Zahoor
Date: March 12, 2025
Trade between India and Pakistan has repeatedly been derailed by conflict, and a deep-seated trust deficit, that has kept bilateral trade at the margins of both economies. In August 2019,...
Policy Brief
The Broken Ground: Unpacking Pakistan’s Climate Displacement Crisis
by: Dr. Eric Shahzar
Date: March 5, 2025
Pakistan’s climate displacement crisis is unfolding at an unprecedented scale, and uprooting millions through forced migration as a result of floods, droughts and glacial melt. Yet, policy response remains fragmented,...
Trump Administration 2.0: What to Expect in South Asia?
by: Jinnah Institute
Date: November 15, 2024
Jinnah Institute hosted a policy roundtable on 7th November, 2024, titled ‘Trump Administration 2.0: What to Expect in South Asia?’ in response to the US election outcome the previous day....
Conference and Research reports
Power of Three: Role of Academia, Media & Think Tanks in Security Reform
Date: November 25, 2023
Pakistan’s National Security Policy (2022-2026) provides an improved pathway for implementing safeguards that protect citizens from traditional and emerging threats. It has also broadened the institutional setting within which security...
OPINION
Financing Climate Action
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 20, 2023
The global climate crisis has left no country untouched, but it is the developing world that (more…)
Opinion
Pakistan’s Climate Journey in 16 Months
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 15, 2023
A small anecdote sums up the cognitive confusion (more…)
OPINION
The Season of Climate Migrants
by: Saif Jamali
Date: September 1, 2022
Human migration is the single most disruptive outcome of climate induced stress, as seen over decades across the world. (more…)
