Opinion
Women in the TTP: Recruiting Across the Gender Divide
by: Meera Nadeem
Date: August 10, 2017
Women in the TTP: Recruiting Across the Gender Divide In the course of carrying out its anti-state insurgency, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has damaged or destroyed over 1,000 schools in...
Publications
Chaophraya Essays | India-Pakistan Trade
Date: August 2, 2017
The ‘Chaophraya Essays’ is a series of essays on bilateral challenges to the normalization of India-Pakistan relations. The series is a culmination of ideas and thoughts exchanged at the Chaophraya Dialogue...
Opinion
War Machine
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: July 22, 2017
What does it take to win a $23 billion-a-year war? With DoD on the brink of recommitting up to 3,900 more American soldiers to the Afghan battlefield, and a possible surge...
Opinion
Between the Devil & the Deep State
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: June 4, 2017
There’s no shortage of irony in the fact that Prime Minister Sharif’s diplomatic snub at the Arab-Islamic-American summit this month coincided with a decidedly rough patch in Pak-Iran relations. While...
Opinion
Bad Choices
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: May 22, 2017
President Trump is finally set to address his country’s longest running war with a ‘new’ policy for Afghanistan. With a troop increase in the mix and a visibly more muscular...
Opinion
How not to talk with India
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: May 6, 2017
Talking to India is just as important as how not to talk. Starting from the premise that constructive dialogue is the first step towards untangling a history of vexed relations...
Opinion
Silencing Kashmir
by: Meera Nadeem
Date: May 4, 2017
India’s blanket ban on 22 social media websites in Jammu and Kashmir has brought to fore the agency of social media in the latest struggle for rights in the disputed...
Opinion
The Rise of Vigilantism
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 27, 2017
Ten days and three acts of vigilantism – the murder of Mashal Khan in Mardan, three burqa clad sisters gunning down a man accused of blasphemy in Sialkot, and Shehbaz...
Opinion
From Moscow, with love
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: February 11, 2017
As Islamabad grapples with the uncertainties of a new Trump administration, a recent timeline of Russian advances to Pakistan is not inconsequential. In 2016 both sides reaching a price accord...
Publications
Indo-Pak 2017: Past the Red Noise
Date: January 27, 2017
Early in the New Year, Jinnah Institute asked a panel of five senior foreign policy experts to outline their expectations from the India-Pakistan relationship in 2017, and to signpost what...
