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Yelena Biberman and Jared Schwartz offer insight into a decision by the Chinese government to block a terrorist designation by the UN of Masood Azhar and the Jaish-e-Mohammed group. Choosing instead to focus on economic and foreign policy with Pakistan and Afghanistan, China is working to stabilize...

Sahar Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee who spent 2 months conducting fieldwork in Lahore and Islamabad. Khan summarizes, "this project analyzes the role of civil institutions in combating Islamist militant and terrorist groups within Pakistan."

By exploring the February 14th suicide bombing in Kashmir that killed 46 Indian security personnel, Yelena Biberman offers insight into the border disputes between Pakistan and India in Kashmir. Both sides appear to be engaging in state-sponsored violence in hopes of gaining the upper hand in the...

Rabia Zafar (Tufts University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Zafar's field research supported her dissertation which "examines local, non-ideological drivers of religious violence. It questions why we see subnational variation in religious violence across time and argues that a...

Kamran Bokhari talks with National Defense University Professor Hassan Abbas about his latest book, which covers the development of the Pakistani nuclear program and its role in the spread of nuclear technology. Abbas, author of “Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence a...