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...
Policy Brief
A Comparative Analysis of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: January 18, 2017
Despite uncertainty and questions over implementation and investigation mechanisms, the Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (2016) became operational just days after it was passed. The first case of cybercrime...
Policy Brief
Reforming the Tribal Areas of Pakistan
by: Saad Rasool
Date: August 31, 2016
The demand for extending democracy to the tribal areas of Pakistan is not a new one. Often conflated with terrorism and border-fragility in international news, the Tribal Areas of Pakistan...
Policy Brief
Accommodating Gender-Sensitive Micro Enterprises
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 30, 2016
The 2007 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Policy defines SMEs as all enterprises that employ less than 250 people and make an annual sum of under 250 million rupees. However,...
Policy Brief
Working to Counter Terrorism: Prospects for Pakistan-India Intelligence & Security Cooperation
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: February 19, 2016
Pakistan and India share one of the most crisis- and risk-prone relationships in contemporary international politics. While the challenge posed to this relationship by the spectre of transnational terrorism is...
