Publications
Prospects for detente
Date: April 11, 2018
The Foreign Minister’s decision to criticize the National Security Advisor for meeting the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad last week was unfortunate and poorly timed. It was unfortunate because...
Opinion
Women Were Never Silent
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: March 8, 2018
Every country’s story is incomplete without its women’s voices. Pakistan is no different. On International Women’s Day we should always take stock of the good, the bad, and of course...
Opinion
Indus Water Treaty: Don’t Lose the Game
by: Ahmad Rafay Alam
Date: January 25, 2018
India and Pakistan have reached an impasse over issues of the Kishenganga and Ratle power plants. Their last meeting in the “good offices” of the World Bank last August and...
Opinion
Say No to Sexual Abuse
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: January 16, 2018
As the news cycle inevitably shifts to politics, violent extremism, the national debt, we all know that little Zainab’s story will fade away into a niche issue until the next...
Opinion
An Existential Threat
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: November 14, 2017
Half of Pakistan is enveloped in a nasty layer of toxic smog, as we speak. The problem is that smog is now an expected seasonal phenomenon rather than an anomaly....
Opinion
No Country for Doves
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: October 11, 2017
In a recent report “Are India-Pakistan peace talks worth a damn?” strategic expert Ashley Tellis questioned the utility of sustained dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad. Diplomatic engagement, Tellis argued, was...
Opinion
High Drama: Retrogressive fictions and Pakistani soaps
by: Fifi Haroon
Date: October 9, 2017
Soaps across the world survive on the echo effect of familiar stereotypes. This is not a phenomenon simply native to Pakistan – Indian soaps are wrapped in Kanjeevaram saris and...
Opinion
Women in the House
by: Marvi Sirmed
Date: September 29, 2017
Greater representation of women in parliament has been a longstanding demand of the women's movement in Pakistan. In 2002, this demand was partially met when 17 per cent of seats...
Opinion
Inglorious Empire: Getting it Wrong in Afghanistan
by: Fahd Humayun & Syed Hassan Akbar
Date: September 15, 2017
When Soviet Foreign Minister Edvard Shevardnadze visited Kabul and Islamabad in 1989 to discuss a peaceful transition from the Afghan war, the militants he sought to meet refused to give...
Opinion
Endangered at Home: Domestic Violence and Provincial Legislation
by: Maliha Zia
Date: September 13, 2017
The schism between Pakistan’s legislation and social realities is perhaps best reflected by domestic violence. It would be reasonable to assume that the enactment of legislation against domestic violence in...
