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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...

Harappa.com is an interactive website offering the most up-to-date information on the ancient history of Pakistan. You can take virtual tours of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, monumental cities of the ancient Indus Civilization (300 BC-1500 BC). The Harappa.com store offers teaching resources including...

This special edition of the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research focuses on the Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Drawing on a multi-author, interdisciplinary approach, the journal examines the political geography, anthropology, history, and civil society in the Hunza...

Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University)was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted library research in Islamabad on the history of the Kh?j? people and their culture.

Luther Obrock (University of Pennsylvania) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Obrock conducted research at the Punjab University in Lahore to support his research in Pakistan which "concentrates on the Indus River as a major conduit of elite groups between the twelfth and the...

Fatima Quraishi (New York University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who visited "funerary monuments and museum collections in Lahore as part of her dissertation research on the vast Makli necropolis, located in the Indus river delta region in Sindh."

In this podcast episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host Shobhana Xavier talks with author SherAli Tareen about his book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (UND Press, 2020). Xavier writes, "[Tareen] takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth an...

Rajbir Judge was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, India, and Hungary for five months. Judge "examines the key alliances the Theosophical Society formed between Sikhs in the Punjab through the narrative of Maharaja Duleep Singh."

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...

Neelam Khoja was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK and France for three months. Khoja "inquires how changes in political and nonpolitical power lead to new or reimagined representations of land and space, language and culture, self and community in eighteenth and early...