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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 Naqvi (Florida International University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Pakistan by following Pakistan Youth Alliance, a local NGO, as they seek to counter youth extremism.
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...
Saad Gulzar (New York University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted research in Pakistan on the Frontier Crimes Regulation and its effects across the region.
Sarah Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee. Khan "spent two months in Lahore and Islamabad conducting interviews and collecting research materials for her dissertation, “Combating Violent Islamist Proxies: The Role of Civil Institutions in Pakistan.”
In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen sits with Nosheen Ali to discuss her book, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier" (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Tarren writes, "Ali presents a lyrical and at many times...
In this policy and international affairs discussion, a series of 5 articles seek to examine the relationship and rising tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing on issues ranging from the Kashmir border crisis to escalating nuclear hostilities, the future of policy discussion and political...
Shayan Rajani (Tufts University) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research on the colonial rule of the frontiers of British India, specifically the organization of Balochistan.