Opinion
A Primordial Gender Binary
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: May 31, 2016
The recent death of Alisha, a 23-year old transgender activist from Peshawar, has brought in stark relief the continuing neglect and lack of entitlements faced by the third gender in...
Opinion
Missed Opportunities
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 22, 2016
As Tehran shakes off the morning-after effects of its international comeback, regional powers are lining up to cash in on the new Iranian moment, taking advantage of credit lines and...
Conference and Research reports
Pakistan: Monitoring the Key Regional Powers 2
Date: May 5, 2016
Quarterly Monitoring Brief 2 This report is the second in a series of three Monitoring Briefs (2016) designed to monitor and track the actions and public statements of five key...
Policy Brief
Accommodating Gender-Sensitive Micro Enterprises
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 30, 2016
The 2007 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Policy defines SMEs as all enterprises that employ less than 250 people and make an annual sum of under 250 million rupees. However,...
Publications
Second Opinion – Suing for Peace after Pathankot: Foreign Secretary-Level Talks
Date: April 28, 2016
Following months of speculation surrounding the fate of the bilateral dialogue between Pakistan and India, Pakistani Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry met his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar on April 26 in...
Opinion
D-Penalty to D-Chowk
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 20, 2016
The protests that followed Qadri's execution were not instituted on a remonstration of capital punishment There is a disconnect (and at times an overlap) between those rallying against the death...
Opinion
Representational Deficits in Electoral Reform
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 19, 2016
A functional democracy requires public ownership of the electoral process. In Pakistan, making these processes inclusive of women, persons with disabilities and minorities is even more important. The recently released...
Opinion
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: April 17, 2016
In what has been an erratic few months for an India-Pakistan relationship still grappling with how to steer clear of diplomatic reversals, the capture of Kulbhushan Yadav in Balochistan has created...
Opinion
Gender & Security: Why Women’s Voices Matter
by: Sauleha Kamal
Date: April 15, 2016
This October, it will be sixteen years since the United Nations adopted Security Council Resolution 1325 affirming the importance of women in peace negotiations, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction. Despite this,...
Opinion
Fringe Power?
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: April 3, 2016
As large tracts of Iraq and Syria hover between Westphalian meltdown and militant takeover, policy pathways for Pakistan in the Middle East remain piloted by Islamabad’s foreign policy equation with...
