Opinion
Timeline of US Taliban Talks
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: January 25, 2019
With discussions around Afghan reconciliation entering a critical phase, it’s worth looking at what is happening in Qatar and beyond. This short piece analyzes the push for a settlement and...
Opinion
Child Marriage and the Law
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: January 17, 2019
Pakistan’s children are its future. Yet not only is this generation put to work in homes, fields and factories, they are the silent objects of abuse and violence in ways...
Opinion
Mobility and Politics
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 30, 2018
It’s been an uneasy year for democracy in Pakistan. If there is a takeaway, it is that politics at the grassroots level continues to be an unequal game despite the...
Opinion
A Bridge Too Far
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 19, 2018
The momentary goodwill rendered by Pakistan’s offer to India to open the Kartarpur Corridor has evaporated, reaffirming some of the bilateral relationship’s worst and more deeply ingrained pathologies. These include...
Opinion
The Connectivity Dream
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: December 17, 2018
The Kartarpur corridor contains the seeds of more inclusive, people-oriented development in Pakistan and across South Asia The Kartarpur corridor connecting two Sikh shrines divided by Partition has posed...
Opinion
A Chequered Decade
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: December 10, 2018
On Human Rights Day, Jinnah Institute looks at rights legislation from the past decade of democratic rule in Pakistan through an interactive timeline of rights legislation, and an accompanying opinion...
Opinion
The State and the Street
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 2, 2018
Much has been said and written about the government’s handling of violent extremism. Recent events have made two things expressly apparent. The first is the growing capacity of religious zealots...
Opinion
Pak-US Terms of Engagement
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: September 12, 2018
The region is once again in the spotlight. The only good news is that during the US Secretary of State’s visit to Islamabad, the two sides endorsed cooperation despite the...
Opinion
The Anatomy of a Taliban Ceasefire
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: July 4, 2018
After months of regional stalemate, two events in June offer a potential roadmap for achieving a working peace. The first was the Taliban’s decision to accept Afghan President Ghani’s offer...
Opinion
How to Fix the Economy
by: Ehsan Malik
Date: June 14, 2018
The biggest challenge for an incoming government two months from now will be how to stabilise the economy. Foreign exchange cover, currently representing two months of imports, would have been...
