Policy Brief
Leave No One Behind: Including Women in the Afghan Transition
by: Ammara Durrani
Date: June 11, 2020
“Some members of the Taliban delegation were looking at me. A few were taking notes. Some others were just looking elsewhere…Since our side had women delegates, I suggested to them...
Opinion
Managing the Stand-Off
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: June 4, 2020
News of a border stand-off between two restive nuclear neighbours is always worrying. Yet when US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation between India and China met with a studied...
Policy Brief
Farthest Field: Women and COVID-19
by: Farzana Bari, Sara Malkani
Date: June 1, 2020
Gender and COVID-19 by Dr. Farzana Bari Heralded as the greatest equaliser of our times, the coronavirus pandemic was expected to blur boundaries of class, race, and gender, and become...
Opinion
Ripple Effects of a Changing Oil Market
by: Saad Rajput
Date: May 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some bizarre distortions in markets across the globe. One such aberration occurred on 20th April, when the price of a barrel of WTI crude –...
Opinion
Will Covid-19 Reshape Afghan Peace?
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: May 10, 2020
Pandemics have a way of sharpening existing social trends and political faultlines. As the Covid-19 virus sows its deadly harvest both in Pakistan and South-Central Asia, the prospect of renewed...
Opinion
Democracy and the Pandemic
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 7, 2020
Pakistan still has a long way to go in the fight against Covid-19, with almost 20,000 confirmed cases, and doctors and hospitals facing a harrowing shortage of testing kits and...
Policy Brief
Social Protection and COVID-19
by: Safiya Aftab
Date: May 5, 2020
Introduction As of end April 2020, Pakistan has more than 16,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and over 350 deaths.[i] As this human tragedy unfolds, more material concerns are also being...
Opinion
Labour Interrupted
by: Mariam Bokhari
Date: May 1, 2020
Perhaps no one has featured as prominently in the Prime Ministers frequent addresses to the nation since March as daily wagers. The precarious condition daily wagers find themselves in has...
Policy Brief
Love in the Time of Corona: A Time to Build South Asian Cooperation
by: Nazish Afraz
Date: April 29, 2020
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and...
Opinion
Dear World, How is the Lockdown?’ Kashmir.
by: Victoria Schofield
Date: April 28, 2020
A year ago I was in the Valley of Kashmir. Although much had changed since my last visit, with new houses under construction, some roads repaired, there was still the...
