Conference and Research reports
Climate Change
Date: October 5, 2017
‘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
Date: October 3, 2017
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
Date: October 3, 2017
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
Date: September 29, 2017
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
Date: September 15, 2017
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
Date: September 13, 2017
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...
Opinion
The Right to Public Space
by: Sadia Khatri
Date: September 7, 2017
My 13 year old sister and I play a game when we commute in Karachi. I count the number of men I see in public spaces, and she counts women...
Opinion
Women in Politics: A Long Road Home
by: Aisha Sarwari
Date: August 21, 2017
When a woman in Pakistan enters politics it is as though she has consciously decided to walk onto a minefield. Despite women parliamentarians enacting affirmative pro-women legislation and leading their...
Opinion
Revolutionizing Business: Women in Entrepreneurship
by: Sadaffe Abid and Babar Pal
Date: August 17, 2017
More and more women are beginning to jump on to the entrepreneurial bandwagon. In the words of Melinda Gates, “when we invest in women and girls, we are investing in...
Publications
SEVEN TAKES AT 70
Date: August 14, 2017
National milestones can be read as bends in the road or as turning points with the capacity to transform prospective pathways. On the eve of Pakistan’s 70th Independence Day, Jinnah...
