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Ateeb Ahmed was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Ahmed "traces the economic, political and legal strategies adopted by the Pakistan military in order to practice urban development and their effects on local communities."

Maira Hayat was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for five months. Hayat's "research on the origins of the canal colonies and the specificities of irrigation water distribution in Pakistan’s Punjab aims to contribute to scholarship on agriculture in Pakistan."

Suneel Kumar was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on the Indus River and delta for two months. Kumar collected data through traveling to different creeks, villages, working with fishermen and interviewing multiple government and non-government officials.

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Madhuri Karak talks with Mubbashir Rizvi to discuss his book, "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford University Press, 2019) Rizvi's book explores new land and agricultural policies...

Maira Hayat offers this critical analysis of the tensions relating to water use and local politics from an anthropological standpoint. Water use in Pakistan has become increasingly politicized as local governments attempt to navigate the needs of local cultivators and farmers while reconciling with...

The Choices Program at Brown University has produced a teaching resource about the Floods in Pakistan. It's aimed for high school students in the US, but perhaps also useful elsewhere.