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Jan 26, 2022

Ahmad in the Middle East Institute: “The Taliban’s religious roadmap for Afghanistan”

By South Asia Center

Afghanistan
Human Rights

In the News

Jan 26, 2022

Riaz in BBC Bengali: লবিস্ট: এদের কাজ কী, কেন নিয়োগ করা হয়, এ নিয়ে আওয়ামী লীগ ও বিএনপি বাংলাদেশে কেন বিতর্ক করছে

By South Asia Center

Bangladesh
Bengali

In the News

Jan 25, 2022

Dr Riaz joins Georgetown Center for Security Studies for a conversation on Bangladesh and its neighbors fifty years after the 1971 war

By Atlantic Council

Bangladesh
South Asia

In the News

Jan 25, 2022

Riaz in the East Asia Forum: “Bangladesh’s democracy erodes amid tilt to China”

By South Asia Center

Bangladesh
China

SouthAsiaSource

Jan 21, 2022

India’s Data Protection Bill–the long wait continues

By Adnan Ahmad Ansari

India, arguably the largest global market for Big Tech (and other tech companies), is moving closer to finalizing a data protection regime after a consultation process that has spanned over four years. In December 2021, a Joint Committee of Parliamentarians (JPC) in India submitted to the Parliament a report and a revised Bill that was referred to it two years ago.

India
Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 20, 2022

Younus in Profit by Pakistan Today: Riding disruption

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business
Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 20, 2022

Riaz joins the London School of Economics’ South Asia Centre to discuss the role of apologies in addressing humanitarian crimes

By South Asia Center

Human Rights
South Asia

SouthAsiaSource

Jan 20, 2022

Pakistan’s new National Security Policy: A step in the right direction

By Rabia Akhtar

It is heartening that the NSP has created a discourse in Pakistan where common citizens are questioning the government about their rightful place in the national security policy. Implementation of the NSP will take a whole-of-government approach, and sectoral reforms will be critical if the policy objectives set in the NSP are to be achieved. 

National Security
Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2022

Pakistan’s ‘Praetorian’ state is a troubling model for a Taliban-led Afghanistan

By Ben Acheson

If the Taliban emulates Pakistan’s Praetorian model, it will further erode all work done to grow a healthy Afghan civil society and develop civilian institutions.

Afghanistan
Democratic Transitions

In the News

Jan 18, 2022

Nasr writes for World Economic Forum, “How to scale public-private partnerships for global progress”

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business

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