Opinion
Timeline of US Taliban Talks
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: January 25, 2019
With discussions around Afghan reconciliation entering a critical phase, it’s worth looking at what is happening in Qatar and beyond. This short piece analyzes the push for a settlement and...
Quarterly Monitoring Brief
Reviewing Indo-Pak Bilateral Relations: Quarterly Monitoring Brief October 2018 – December 2018
Date: January 24, 2019
Hostile statements from India and Pakistan continued in the last quarter of 2018 as ceasefire violations continued at the Line of Control and bilateral relations remained tense. Perhaps the most...
Opinion
Child Marriage and the Law
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: January 17, 2019
Pakistan’s children are its future. Yet not only is this generation put to work in homes, fields and factories, they are the silent objects of abuse and violence in ways...
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,...
Opinion
Mobility and Politics
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 30, 2018
It’s been an uneasy year for democracy in Pakistan. If there is a takeaway, it is that politics at the grassroots level continues to be an unequal game despite the...
Opinion
A Bridge Too Far
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 19, 2018
The momentary goodwill rendered by Pakistan’s offer to India to open the Kartarpur Corridor has evaporated, reaffirming some of the bilateral relationship’s worst and more deeply ingrained pathologies. These include...
Opinion
The Connectivity Dream
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: December 17, 2018
The Kartarpur corridor contains the seeds of more inclusive, people-oriented development in Pakistan and across South Asia The Kartarpur corridor connecting two Sikh shrines divided by Partition has posed...
Opinion
A Chequered Decade
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: December 10, 2018
On Human Rights Day, Jinnah Institute looks at rights legislation from the past decade of democratic rule in Pakistan through an interactive timeline of rights legislation, and an accompanying opinion...
Publications
Jinnah Institute’s Policy Dialogue on Social Media and Populist Nationalism
Date: December 3, 2018
Political systems across the world have undergone a wave of populism, and are hard pressed to balance majoritarian political demands against fundamental human rights. Nowhere is this contest more visible...
Opinion
The State and the Street
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 2, 2018
Much has been said and written about the government’s handling of violent extremism. Recent events have made two things expressly apparent. The first is the growing capacity of religious zealots...
