Mir Sher Baz Khetran
Research Fellow
Areas of Research:
Russia, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Mir Sher Baz Khetran works as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISSI), Islamabad. He has done MS.c Political Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University in 2005 and also holds a Law degree.
Khetran joined the Institute in 2009. Apart from regularly contributing to the Institute’s publications, he is also the author of Crisis in Balochistan: A way forward. His area of research is Balochistan and Central Asia.
Other Publications:
- Pakistan’s Water Security Issue & Impacts of Floods
https://scholar.kyobobook.co.kr/article/detail/4010047489298 - Missed Opportunity?
https://twitter.com/khorasandiary/status/1661356096966262786?s=48&t=Po8JvYMezRve22mAtoEE7g - Food Security challenges in Pakistan
https://scholar.kyobobook.co.kr/article/detail/4010036906441 - CPEC and it’s significance for Balochistan
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/cpec-and-its-significance-for-balochistan/ - China-US Relations in the Post Trump Era
http://scholar.dkyobobook.co.kr/searchDetail.laf?barcode=4010028455586 - Pakistan’s tourism potential
https://nation.com.pk/28-Feb-2021/pakistan-s-tourism-potential - Afghanistan’s Economic Potential: A Case for Regional Security
https://thesvi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JSSA-Vol-5-No.-2-Final-123-142.pdf - The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Gateway to Central Asia
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2377740019500179 - Pakistan’s role in the Afghan peace negotiations
https://foreignpolicynews.org/2019/09/24/pakistans-role-in-the-afghan-peace-negotiations/ - The CPEC and China-Pakistan Relations: A Case Study on Balochistan
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2377740017500191?src=recsys&
Issue Brief on “Pakistan’s Population Explosion and the Youth Bulge”
Introduction
Pakistan is globally recognised as a country facing challenges in controlling its population growth. Its alarming population growth rate of 2.4pc per annum, which...
Issue Brief on “At UNGA 2022,Climate Crisis and floods in Pakistan Took the Centre...
The 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 2022) was held in New York on September 13-27. Major themes of the summit were increasing energy...
Issue Brief on “Floods in Pakistan and its Sectoral Impact”
Pakistan is situated with the highest disaster risk levels in the world. In 2019, Pakistan ranked 18 out of 191 countries on the Inform...
Issue Brief on “Climate Change and Floods in Pakistan”
Climate Change has been identified as a threat multiplier since the 2015 Paris Agreement and currently comes under the 13th Sustainable Development Goal. According...
Issue Brief on “Russia-Ukraine War and the Issue of Food Security in Pakistan”
Russia–Ukraine war has disrupted agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major food-exporting regions. Both countries are known as the breadbasket of...
Issue Brief on “Global Food Crisis and the Issue of Child Malnutrition in Pakistan”
During the UN Economic and Social Council Meeting, 2022, Amina Mohammed UN Deputy Secretary-General stated that ‘’there is no doubt that much of the...
Issue Brief on “The State of Food Security in Pakistan”
On May 19, 2022, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari attended the United Nations conference on “Conflict and Food security” where he acknowledged that...
Report – Panel Discussion “Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: Lessons for Pakistan”
The Centre for Strategic Perspectives (CSP) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) organised a Panel Discussion titled, “Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and...
Issue Brief on “Rising Heat Waves and Climate Change: A Wake up Call for...
Climate change has brought tremendous challenges for countries which are not limited to natural disasters alone. Rising global temperatures have wreaked havoc on international...
Issue Brief on “Covid-19 and Pakistan’s Food Security Issues”
The pandemic created severe impediments to economic activity resulting in drastic changes in the livelihoods of people and the situations of food security and...