“From the pressure of all desolations faith gushes forth … we are entering a grave illumined by the dawn.” (Victor Hugo) Revolutions around the world have always been triggered by massive inequities and injustice. From the Set and Nubian revolutions in 2730 BC and 2690 BC in ancient Egypt to the storming of the Bastille …
By Ozer Khalid, senior consultant and foreign policy expert. 22 August 2021 Article one of a two-part series Simmering Chinese-Indian border tensions heighten possibilities for an arms race in the Indo-Pacific and South Asian command theatres already on a nuclear knife’s edge, exacerbated by uncertainty in Afghanistan, turmoil a restive Occupied Kashmir, heated maritime escalation …
Event Organized by Islamabad Policy Research Institute Seminar on Fighting the Kashmir Cause: A StratComm Response In an attempt to eulogise the struggle of Kashmiris and highlight the mechanisms needed in this digital age to reach out to the world, a seminar was held by IPRI with Member of British Parliament, Naz Shah, and Maleeka …
By Abdul Basit, Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. 06 July 2021 As the US is withdrawing, Afghanistan finds itself at history’s crossroads and it seems the history will repeat itself, yet again. The Taliban’s rapid territorial gains, amid the deadlocked peace process and the hasty US retreat, have raised the …
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Let us face the facts; the Taliban want a military solution for the simple reason that the US-led coalition has recognized the locus of the Taliban without conditions. Now, those insisting that the Taliban may agree to come to terms with the Ashraf Ghani government are either too naive to not know what the militia …
By Amal Malik, student of BA Comparative Literature, with an interest in post-colonialism. 08 February 2021 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was formed with the primary aim of mitigating security threats throughout Eurasia, with the secondary aims of enriching trade relationships and combatting humanitarian crises. The SCO was built upon the foundations of multilateral cooperation, with …
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Decades ago, I had read somewhere that “Kashmir is that beautiful poetry of God which he wrote while experiencing together the highest form of happiness and deepest sorrow.” This made me to visit Kashmir for several times in past. My last visit to Kashmir along Line of Control (LoC) was in 2016. I basked in …
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Barrister Maleeka Bokhari is Member of National Assembly of Pakistan and Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice.28 January 2021 Barrister Maleeka Bokhari was interviewed by Ms Kashaf Rehman, producer of Policy Beats, and Narrative Designer at IPRI. Interviewer: Research shows that the gender of the legislator affects both the range of policy issues that get …
IPRI is one of the oldest non-partisan think-tanks on all facets of National Security including international relations & law, strategic studies, governance & public policy and economic security in Pakistan. Established in 1999, IPRI is affiliated with the National Security Division (NSD), Government of Pakistan.
