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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.

Maria-Magdalena Fuchs (Princeton University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Lahore, Pakistan. Fuchs' research centers on "how Muslim associations (so-called Anjumans) contributed to the creation of an Urdu public sphere in late colonial...

In this podcast episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host SherAli Tareen speaks with Farhat Haq to discuss her book, "Shari?a and the State in Pakistan: Blasphemy Politics" (Routledge, 2019). Haq's book "Haq presents the history and present of blasphemy laws, debates, and politics in Pakistan,...

Ghazal Asif (Johns Hopkins University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of fieldwork in Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. Asif's research was in support of her dissertation which "is concerned with the way religious minorities in Pakistan encounter and recreate...

Aqil Shah offers an analysis of the Pakistan's 2018 Parliamentary elections that scored a key victory for Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf and brought Imran Khan into power as Prime Minister. Shah notes that despite this being the second peaceful turnover of power in Pakistan, the election has been marred...

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...

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...

Asif Akhtar was a 2018-19 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for six months. Akhtar aimed to "study the contemporary ‘media system’ in Pakistan in terms of technological change, the regulatory impetus it has driven, and the discursive and practical impact these have had ...

Shuyan Huang was a 2024 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for two weeks. Huang's research focuses on Chinese public diplomacy/propaganda efforts in Pakistan and what kind of effects Chinese State-Sponsored news and information have in changing people's...

Rehan Jamil (Brown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Karachi, Pakistan. Jamil sought to "identify the causal factors that explain why certain settlements [in Karachi] have much higher public goods provision, while others have little...