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...
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...
