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Junaid Rana was a 2018-2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan for three months. Rana conducted "preliminary ethnographic research and collect oral histories regarding the life of Dada Amir Haider Khan from 1947 to 1989."

Mashal Saif (Clemson University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Pakistan. Saif's research focused on "contemporary Pakistani Muslims scholars who engage with Prophetic dreams to determine criminality – a vital facet of some of thes...

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...

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...

Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

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...