OPINION
The Season of Climate Migrants
by: Saif Jamali
Date: September 1, 2022
Human migration is the single most disruptive outcome of climate induced stress, as seen over decades across the world. (more…)
POLICY BRIEF
Climate Brief 2022: Navigating Pakistan’s Climate Crisis
by: Salman Zaidi, Meera Nadeem, Abdulla Wasti & Zahaid Rehman
Date: March 22, 2022
Introduction Existential challenges require concerted action, consensus and policy clarity. So far, on climate stress, Pakistan seems to be (more…)
OPINION
A Fragile Stalemate on the LoC
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: February 24, 2022
In the policy permafrost of Indo-Pak relations, not much is expected to move towards resolution through diplomatic engagement. (more…)
OPINION
Who Will Win the Hindi Heartland?
by: Meera Nadeem & Abdulla Wasti
Date: February 11, 2022
India had once claimed the merit of being the largest democracy in the world, where 900 million voters enable (more…)
OPINION
The pursuit of strategic autonomy
by: Abdulla Wasti
Date: December 23, 2021
The recently held democracy summit ended up being another iteration of a world being divided into binaries. While the summit (more…)
OPINION
The Indo-Pacific shift: a struggle for power
by: Abdulla Wasti
Date: December 10, 2021
The recently held virtual meeting of the Climate Summit between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping might have initiated some meaningful contact between the two states, but...
OPINION
AFGHANISTAN: WINTER IS COMING
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: November 3, 2021
South Asia faces a perfect storm with the growing risk of an unstable Afghanistan, coupled with divided views in the international community on who must take responsibility for the strategic...
OPINION
Preserving Gains: The Fate of Afghan Women
by: Meera Nadeem & Abdulla Wasti
Date: August 14, 2021
As the map of who controls Afghanistan changes by the hour, the most affected on the ground remain women (more…)
Post COVID Futures
Chapter 2: Past the Tipping Point: Why Pakistan’s Low Emitter Argument Won’t Work
by: Rafay Alam
Date: August 4, 2021
July’s flash flood in Islamabad was triggered by a “cloudburst” that swept cars away in high tide (more…)
POLICY BRIEF
South Asia in Transition: Finding Stability in the Third Nuclear Age
by: Sitara Noor
Date: June 11, 2021
Introduction The month of May marked 23 years since Pakistan and India tested their atomic bombs and gatecrashed (more…)