Publications
Reviewing Indo-Pak Bilateral Relations: Quarterly Monitoring Brief April 2014 – June 2014
Date: September 11, 2013
This monitoring brief recaps significant developments in Indo-Pak relations between April 2014 and June 2014, including statements, visits, and policy initiatives. It is part of a series of monitoring briefs...
Opinion
Policies Without Direction
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: September 10, 2013
Anyone in Pakistan who dabbles in the lexicon of urbanomics will be the first to admit one of two things: that cities are like living organisms that need sophisticated delivery...
Conference and Research reports
Apolitical or Depoliticised? Pakistan’s Youth and Politics
Date: June 14, 2013
Pakistan has a long history of student politics and students have played a major role in shaping the directions taken by the state and the government of Pakistan. However, the...
Policy Brief
Promises and Policies – Reviewing Party Manifestos for the 2013 Elections
by: Ahmer Naqvi
Date: May 9, 2013
2013 promises to be a historic year for democracy in Pakistan, as the country marks its first democratic transition between civilian governments in its 66-year history. Unlike the previous elections...
Policy Brief
Economic Policy and Management in Pakistan (2008 to 2013)
by: Safiya Aftab
Date: April 23, 2013
In the five years of the previous government’s tenure, the country has seen five Finance Ministers (FM), four Finance Secretaries (who have had six tenures among them, as one person...
Conference and Research reports
Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan 2011 – 2012
Date: April 11, 2013
2012 saw previous patterns of violence against religious minorities continue to be repeated, often with greater intensity. This report documents the increase in bombings at Sufi shrines, the rising spate...
Policy Brief
Performance and Prospects of Democracy in Pakistan: Political Scenarios Affecting the Elections 2013
Date: April 1, 2013
It is for the first time in Pakistan’s history that an elected government is completing its term (2008-2013). The Pakistan Peoples Party-led coalition was jolted on several occasions, but it...
Opinion
Spitballing the endgame
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: March 26, 2013
The picture is depressingly familiar: with another warm-weather fighting season upon Afghanistan, efforts to crowd-source an international fall guy for a war gone south is disingenuously pitting public opinion against...
Policy Brief
Grant of MFN Status to India: Possible Impacts
by: Safiya Aftab
Date: March 15, 2013
According to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in FY2010, the value of Pakistan’s exports to India was $260 million, and the value of imports from India was $1061 million....
Policy Brief
Monitoring Hate Speech on the Internet
by: Annum Sadiq
Date: November 15, 2012
The internet is the world’s largest ungoverned space, where users access information, exchange views and undertake collective action. At least 20 million Pakistanis are online, following a boom in the...
