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From the Lawyers’ Movement to the August March: The challenges of bringing...
By Maryyum Mehmood: In the past couple of weeks we have seen the unfolding of yet another political turmoil in Pakistan. Tens of thousands of protesters, a significant number of them women and...
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The arrival of IS in Pakistan and the politics of the caliphate
By Zoha Waseem: * * * While Pakistan remained fixated on the political stalemate between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (PML-N), Imran Khan (PTI) and Tahir ul Qadri (PAT), that is now well into its second...
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Over 130 Children Killed in Tragic Peshawar Attack
By Zoha Waseem: A Pakistani soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School after they were rescued. Source: Reuters Heart-breaking images from Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar...
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Financing Terror, Part II: Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism
By Claire Mennessier: Taliban fighters demobilising in Afghanistan. Photo: Isafmedia (some rights reserved) For the last 25 years Pakistan has been involved in the sponsoring of terrorism on a national...
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Interview – Journalist Sean Carberry on Afghanistan & conflict reporting
By Mackenzie Weinger: Journalist Sean Carberry shut down NPR’s Kabul bureau at the end of 2014 after more than two years reporting in Afghanistan. Photo: Courtesy Sean Carberry In December 2014,...
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Operation Decisive Storm: when Riyadh calls on Islamabad
By Zoha Waseem: With Iran-backed Houthi rebels advancing in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has called upon its trusted and indebted partner Pakistan for support in so-called ‘Operation...
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Karachi attack on Shia community calls security operation into question
By Zoha Waseem: Karachi, Photograph: Rehan Khan/EPA Forty-five members of a minority community, the Ismailis were gunned down while traveling on a bus carrying sixty people in Karachi on the morning of...
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Daesh in Pakistan: The allure for the urban militant – Part II
By: Zoha Waseem Daesh, otherwise referred to as Islamic State or ISIL, has been expanding its presence around the world beyond its stronghold in Syria and Iraq. In the coming weeks, Strife will be...
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A creative mind? An early assessment of Modi’s foreign policy
By Zoha Waseem: As Narendra Modi prepares to depart for the 6th summit of BRICS during what will be the Indian Prime Minister’s first international appearance since being voted into office in May this...
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From the Lawyers’ Movement to the August March: The challenges of bringing...
By Maryyum Mehmood: In the past couple of weeks we have seen the unfolding of yet another political turmoil in Pakistan. Tens of thousands of protesters, a significant number of them women and...
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India’s eye in the sky: combat drones in the Kashmiri equation
By: Gen Kawasaki and Chu Kah Leong A Predator-C Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter D. Lawlor/Released) The use of drones as a...
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Is Balakot a Point of No Return? Revisiting Asymmetric Escalation in South Asia
By Kamaldeep Singh Sandhu 28 February 2019 On 26 February 2019, Indian Mirage 2000s carried out an air raid in Pakistan, which escalated the conflict between the two states. The current situation In...
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Will India and Pakistan Go To War?
By Saawani Raje 28 February 2019 “Will India and Pakistan ever go to war?” This question has gained new significance since Pakistan shot down two Indian fighter jets early on the morning of 27th...
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India and Pakistan on the Brink of War at Jammu and Kashmir: What Role for...
By Axel Dessein 6 March 2019 Putting the RIC back in BRIC. Russia, India and China met for a trilateral meeting between the country’s foreign ministers, against the backdrop of the unfolding crisis in...
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Book Review: ‘Dying to Serve’
by Kamaldeep Singh Sandhu Maria Rashid, Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2020. ISBN...
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Article 370’s Revocation: Integrating or Alienating Kashmir?
by Prachi Aryal There has been heavy military deployment in Kashmir in order to contain protests following the revocation of Article 370 (Image credit: Dar Yasin) “Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,...
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Pakistan Paradox: Will New Intelligence Committee Erase Deficiencies or...
By Mariam Qureshi Image Caption: Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at ISI Headquarters. Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1593085 Pakistan has predominantly been a...
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Pakistan-Bangladesh Relations: Islamabad Calling, Will Dhaka Respond?
Bangladeshi youth commemorate the Bengali freedom fighters of the 1971 war at the National Memorial in Dhaka, on Victory Day, 16 December 2019 By Silvia Tieri In South Asia, music speaks politics....
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Gendered Partition of India: An Untold Story
By Akshara Goel Women during the partition. Source – Sabrang India. ‘Partition has caused the politics of the belly’ – Francois Bayart. On 15th August 1947 India attained independence from the two...
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