Conference and Research reports
Power of Three: Role of Academia, Media & Think Tanks in Security Reform
Date: November 25, 2023
Pakistan’s National Security Policy (2022-2026) provides an improved pathway for implementing safeguards that protect citizens from traditional and emerging threats. It has also broadened the institutional setting within which security...
OPINION
Financing Climate Action
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 20, 2023
The global climate crisis has left no country untouched, but it is the developing world that (more…)
Opinion
Pakistan’s Climate Journey in 16 Months
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 15, 2023
A small anecdote sums up the cognitive confusion (more…)
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...