Conference and Research reports
Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan 2011 – 2012
Date: April 11, 2013
2012 saw previous patterns of violence against religious minorities continue to be repeated, often with greater intensity. This report documents the increase in bombings at Sufi shrines, the rising spate...
Policy Brief
Performance and Prospects of Democracy in Pakistan: Political Scenarios Affecting the Elections 2013
Date: April 1, 2013
It is for the first time in Pakistan’s history that an elected government is completing its term (2008-2013). The Pakistan Peoples Party-led coalition was jolted on several occasions, but it...
Opinion
Spitballing the endgame
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: March 26, 2013
The picture is depressingly familiar: with another warm-weather fighting season upon Afghanistan, efforts to crowd-source an international fall guy for a war gone south is disingenuously pitting public opinion against...
Policy Brief
Grant of MFN Status to India: Possible Impacts
by: Safiya Aftab
Date: March 15, 2013
According to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in FY2010, the value of Pakistan’s exports to India was $260 million, and the value of imports from India was $1061 million....
Policy Brief
Monitoring Hate Speech on the Internet
by: Annum Sadiq
Date: November 15, 2012
The internet is the world’s largest ungoverned space, where users access information, exchange views and undertake collective action. At least 20 million Pakistanis are online, following a boom in the...
Policy Brief
Another Approach to Madrassa Reforms in Pakistan
by: Syed Mohammad Ali
Date: October 22, 2012
The rise of extremism and intolerance in Pakistan over the decades, not just in the militant periphery but in mainstream society too, has been promoted by a number of factors....
Opinion
Jinnah’s Pakistan cannot be abandoned
by: Raza Rumi
Date: August 11, 2012
This August has been cruel. Haunting images of Sindhi Hindus, essential to the cultural reality and demography of the province, leaving the country [i] shook those who believe that Pakistan belongs...
Policy Brief
Fiscal Planning, Eighteenth Amendment and The Upcoming Budget
by: Hina Shaikh
Date: May 25, 2012
It is that time of the year again, when the Pakistan secretariat becomes the epicenter of budget activity. Each year the budget exercise follows a pre-set routine that is not...
Policy Brief
The Continuing Biases in Our Textbooks
by: Zubeida Mustafa
Date: April 30, 2012
For decades the textbooks used in Pakistan's educational institutions, especially the ones used in the public sector, have drawn serious criticism from experts and concerned citizens. Besides being shoddily produced,...
Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict trends in Pakistan 2010-2011
Date: February 16, 2012
Pakistan’s problem of extremism is a greater threat to the country than terrorism. This was the consensus during the February 16th launch of Jinnah Institute’s report “˜Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict trends...
