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SouthAsiaSource Mar 31, 2023
By Shuja Nawaz and other experts
Terrorism is reemerging in Pakistan. To understand how it should respond to this heightened threat, Distinguished Fellow Shuja Nawaz moderated a series of conversations with experts about fighting terrorism and militancy.
SouthAsiaSource Nov 16, 2022
By South Asia Center experts
With Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa set to retire on November 29, 2022, the appointment of a new army chief prompts a new set of challenges. South Asia Center experts provide their analyses of the situation.
SouthAsiaSource Nov 7, 2022
By Ali Hasanain
As the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor enters its second phase, each side needs to review how they can improve the program’s effectiveness for mutual benefit.
SouthAsiaSource
By Masood Khan
Masood Khan, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, joined the Atlantic Council's 2022 conference on the future of the US-Pakistan relationship to give the keynote address.
By Federico Masera & Hasin Yousaf
Violent, criminal, and terrorist organizations’ functioning and success often rely on the support of the population in which they operate. Some scholars have hypothesized that to gain and maintain this vital support, violent organizations engage in the provision of goods and services.
By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
To ignore Washington's new National Security Strategy just because it does not mention Pakistan would be incredibly shortsighted for Islamabad, primarily because whatever the United States plans to do—directly and indirectly—will affect it.
By Davood Moradian
Afghan and Iranian women continue to be denied their basic human rights, and this shared struggle is built on an overlapping Iranian-Afghan history and civilizational space known as the Iranian plateau.
The temptation will be high for Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to play Daronomics again, to the detriment of Pakistan in all but the shortest of short runs.
By Sophie Mae Berman and Yelena Biberman
Though Afghan women have been included in certain peacebuilding efforts, these experiences were largely tokenist and minimally empowering.
By Mohammad A. Arafat
Though Bangladesh is not without fault, the international community has good reason to see it as a constructive, democratic partner in South Asia.
More than one-third of Pakistan is underwater amid catastrophic climate change-induced flooding. South Asia Center experts provide their analyses of the situation.
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