Publications
Looking Beyond India’s Chabahar Option
Date: March 7, 2014
By Fahd Humayun- The ‘Bali Package’ unveiled at the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Indonesia this December backed new mechanisms for lowering global trade barriers, including an agreement between members (yet...
Publications
Afghanistan’s Presidential Election 2014
Date: March 6, 2014
By Fahd Humayun The Long Road to April In less than a week, Afghanistan will be heading to the polls to elect a new President. This will be the country’s...
Opinion
Cosmetic Changes
by: Sehar Tariq
Date: February 28, 2014
“Desperate times call for desperate measures” was a common refrain in the post 9/11 world, as security establishments across the globe geared up to supposedly combat unprecedented levels of terrorism. The...
Opinion
Trojan Tactics
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: February 4, 2014
Last week the PM teetered on the knife-edge of launching a full-scale military operation in North Waziristan. For the first time in months it seemed as if the PML-N had...
Publications
Trojan Tactics
Date: February 4, 2014
By Fahd Humayun- Last week the PM teetered on the knife-edge of launching a full-scale military operation in North Waziristan. For the first time in months it seemed as if...
Opinion
Honoring Aitzaz Hasan: Fighting the Demons of Sectarianism
by: Sehar Tariq
Date: January 11, 2014
On the morning of January 6th, Aitzaz Hasan lost his life while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school. The only thing standing between the 2000 children enrolled in...
Opinion
India-Pakistan trade relations: Current and Potential
by: Rohit Kumar
Date: January 3, 2014
In recent years, efforts towards promoting peace in South Asia have pivoted around the idea of improving trade relations as the best bet in forging a lasting relationship between...
Opinion
Helping Pakistan’s Rural Women Help Themselves
by: Bina Shah
Date: December 12, 2013
Pakistan’s rural women are slowly enacting change in their lives. Women perform a significant amount of labor in the fields, but that they still struggle to be recognized as equal...
Opinion
Papering Over Faultlines – The Fall Out of the Peshawar Church Bombing
by: Anthony Permal
Date: December 2, 2013
As I write this, Christian families in Peshawar, Pakistan are preparing to bury their dead, who were massacred in a suicide bombing at their church on Sunday. This isn't all...
Opinion
She’s More than a Slogan
by: Ahmer Naqvi
Date: December 2, 2013
In a few hours, we will know if a young girl will get to become what one commentator described as the reason the Nobel Peace Prize gets its credibility...