Policy Brief
Beyond Stabilization – Moving Towards a Growth Economy
by: Ali Khizar
Date: June 19, 2015
The growth trajectory of Pakistan’s economy has remained visibly low since 2008. Over the years, supply side bottlenecks owing to persistent energy shortages and inefficiencies within the sector have strained...
Opinion
Beyond Highways and Corridors
by: Safwan A. Khan
Date: June 3, 2015
When the federal government confessed to committing a ‘typo’ in the official economic growth rate figure announced last year, it didn’t come as a surprise to many who have now...
Opinion
Bus to Islamabad
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 28, 2015
When Indian Defense Minister Mannohar Parrikar spoke of ‘neutralising terrorists through terrorists,’ on a private news channel last week, his comments threw into sharp relief the time warp that the...
Opinion
Long Road to Peace
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: May 9, 2015
The war may have been won, but Afghanistan’s warm-weather fighting season is just getting started. As the Afghan Taliban fan out into the northern province of Kunduz, looking to take...
Policy Brief
Restructuring Pakistan’s Devolved Family Planning Services
by: Safieh Shah
Date: March 19, 2015
In 2014, Pakistan’s population was estimated at being over 188 million making it the world’s sixth-most populous country. Since the census in 1951, the population has quadrupled while the urban...
Publications
Second Opinion: Gearing for a Reset – India-Pakistan Foreign Secretary Level Talks
Date: March 2, 2015
In the wake of a tense quarter for Indo-Pak relations and continuing violence on the Line of Control (LoC), the two Foreign Secretaries are finally set to meet this week...
Opinion
Changing State of Play
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: February 26, 2015
When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed in Beijing earlier this month, he drove directly from the airport to meet his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. The meeting – less than...
Conference and Research reports
Devolution: Provincial Autonomy and the 18th Amendment
Date: February 11, 2015
2010 marked a watershed in the structural reform of the Pakistani state. Not since 1973, when Pakistan’s constitution was framed, had such a significant and wide ranging institutional restructuring been...
Policy Brief
Developing a Progressive Internet Policy for Pakistan
by: Jahanzaib Haque
Date: January 30, 2015
Increasing levels of internet use and accessibility have given rise to significant challenges across the world; Pakistan has not been an exception. However, the response to these challenges at the...
Opinion
Not out of the Woods, Yet
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: December 25, 2014
Days after the US-Pakistan Defence Consultative Group’s meeting last month, Congress quietly green-signaled the National Defence Authorisation Act 2015. The new bill includes an extension of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF)...
