Issue Brief on “Lebanon-Israel Maritime Deal”
On 27 October, 2022, Lebanon and Israel reached a US-brokered agreement to end a long-running dispute over their maritime border by officially laying out...
Issue Brief on “Floods in Pakistan”
Natural disasters and Climate Change pose a severe threat to the world and Pakistan is no exception. For years, the country has been plagued...
Issue Brief on “Kashmir Conflict and Relevance of UNSC Resolutions”
The myth - so religiously peddled by India that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Kashmir are no more relevant was once...
Issue Brief on “US-China Strategic Competition”
The term Indo-Pacific (IP) was first coined by a German geopolitical scholar Karl Haushofer, who used it in his work ‘Indopazifischen Raum’ in 1920....
Issue Brief on “Rethinking the Policy Capacity of Pakistan to Adopt Blue-Green Infrastructure”
Background
The notion of incorporating nature into urban planning is becoming quite popular in cities throughout the world, mainly due to aggravating impacts of climate...
Issue Brief on “Combatting disinformation and Islamophobia”
Disinformation and rising Islamophobia have emerged as serious challenges in the contemporary world. Muslim populations across the globe are affected by this phenomenon and...
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 “Food Security in MENA amidst the Russian-Ukraine Crisis”
From the richest to the poorest countries, rising food prices continue to be the cause of much destruction, especially in the aftermath of Covid-19....
Issue Brief on “Pakistan Exits the FATF Increased Monitoring List – What’s Next?”
On October 21, 2022, President of the FATF Raja Kumar announced Pakistan's removal from the financial watchdog's "Increased Monitoring List" (IML) also known as...
Issue Brief on “UNDP Report “One Year in Review-Afghanistan since August 2021” – Takeaways”
Cascading crisis and a crippled economy are the new realities of Afghanistan. The recently released report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) builds...
