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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 ...

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...

Syeda ShahBano Ijaz (New York University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted data-gathering research in Islamabad, Pakistan to better understand the lives and experiences of Internally Displaced People (IDPs).

Ahsan Kamal was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who performed research in Pakistan to study the resettlement programs as a result of dam constructions.

Farhat Haq sits down for a discussion with SherAli Tareen on a podcast about her recent book publication, "Shari?a and the State in Pakistan." Farhat talks about the history of blasphemy politics in Pakistan and how discourse has shifted over the recent decades. Blasphemy politics in Pakistan...

Luke Sonnet (UCLA) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who explored electricity generation and load shedding in Pakistan. Sonnet was particularly interested in the intersection between load shedding and governance in Pakistan.

SherAli Tareen delivers this virtual talk as part of a course on People, Cultures, and Languages in Pakistan for the Hast O Neest Institute in Lahore. The talk follows the themes of "Religion and Colonial Modernity in South Asia" and is delivered primarily in Urdu.

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...