Policy Brief

Not Losing Advantage over India’s Catch-22 on the Indus Treaty

by:  Ahmad Rafay Alam

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...
Opinion

No Country for Doves

by:  Fahd Humayun

In a recent report “Are India-Pakistan peace talks worth a damn?” strategic expert Ashley Tellis questioned the utility of sustained dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad. Diplomatic engagement, Tellis argued, was...
Opinion

High Drama: Retrogressive fictions and Pakistani soaps

by:  Fifi Haroon

Soaps across the world survive on the echo effect of familiar stereotypes. This is not a phenomenon simply native to Pakistan – Indian soaps are wrapped in Kanjeevaram saris and...
Publications

Report | Climate Change

‘You can partition land, but you cannot partition the monsoons, aquifers, the Himalayas or consequences of climate change’ The Task Force on Climate Change was established by the conveners of...
Conference and Research reports

Climate Change

‘You can partition land, but you cannot partition the monsoons, aquifers, the Himalayas or consequences of climate change’ The Task Force on Climate Change was established by the conveners of...
Publications

Report | New Media and Alternative Narratives

New media is fast reshaping the contours of how South Asians understand and interact with the state, their societies and with each other. With high internet penetration, growing youth demographics...
Conference and Research reports

New Media and Alternative Narratives

New media is fast reshaping the contours of how South Asians understand and interact with the state, their societies and with each other. With high internet penetration, growing youth demographics...
Opinion

Women in the House

by:  Marvi Sirmed

Greater representation of women in parliament has been a longstanding demand of the women's movement in Pakistan. In 2002, this demand was partially met when 17 per cent of seats...
Opinion

Inglorious Empire: Getting it Wrong in Afghanistan

by:  Fahd Humayun &  Syed Hassan Akbar

When Soviet Foreign Minister Edvard Shevardnadze visited Kabul and Islamabad in 1989 to discuss a peaceful transition from the Afghan war, the militants he sought to meet refused to give...
Opinion

Endangered at Home: Domestic Violence and Provincial Legislation

by:  Maliha Zia

The schism between Pakistan’s legislation and social realities is perhaps best reflected by domestic violence. It would be reasonable to assume that the enactment of legislation against domestic violence in...