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...
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...
Policy Brief
Parliament and the Pandemic
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: April 20, 2020
Introduction Parliament’s role in managing, scrutinizing and leading Pakistan’s fight against COVID-19 and its potential dangers is critical to coherent outcomes. With the situation in Pakistan still at a stage...
Policy Brief
India, Pakistan and the Pandemic: Community of Shared Future?
by: Haroon Sharif
Date: March 31, 2020
India, Pakistan and the Pandemic: Community of Shared Future? Abstract Crises are often the crucible for old challenges to be addressed in new ways. The COVID-19 pandemic may just force...
Policy Brief
Integrating Transgender Persons: Towards Inclusive Policymaking
by: Mariam Ali Bokhari & Muhammad Amir Khan
Date: October 28, 2019
Giving transgender persons a fuller measure of their citizenship rights in Pakistan has been a staple objective of political party manifestos since the last three elections. Several legislative and policy...
Policy Brief
Budget 2019-2020: Inequality and Public Policy
by: Safiya Aftab
Date: June 18, 2019
Inequality is believed to drive conflict and destabilize society, and thus indirectly retard economic growth. On a more fundamental level, though, inequality undermines the principles of social justice and preservation...
Policy Brief
War to Lawfare – Spotlighting the India-Pakistan Conflict
by: Professor Sikander Ahmed Shah and Professor Uzair J. Kayani
Date: May 6, 2019
Lawfare, or the use of legal fora and devices for military and diplomatic advantage, has become a critical component of South Asia’s dynamic conflict landscape. In the context of the...
Policy Brief
A Constitutional History of Water in Pakistan
by: Ahmad Rafay Alam
Date: January 7, 2019
What exactly is water law? The answer is elusive. Water itself is fascinating. It adopts the shape of the vessel it occupies. Different vessels, different shapes. And for each shape,...
Policy Brief
Terrorism in the Age of New Media
by: Meera Nadeem
Date: June 20, 2018
In an age of connectivity and increasingly porous national borders, threats to global security transcend limitations imposed by geography and conventional application of force. The realm of new media provides...
Policy Brief
Not Losing Advantage over India’s Catch-22 on the Indus Treaty
by: Ahmad Rafay Alam
Date: October 17, 2017
India, Pakistan and the World Bank have reached an impasse over issues of the Kishenganga and Ratle hydropower power plants. Both countries met at Secretary level talks held in the...