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The Lasting Legacies of Partition for Pakistan’s Pashtuns
August 2022 marked the 75th anniversary of the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent. With the displacement of millions through divisions along religious lines and the creation of new borders and independent nations, Partition has left a legacy that echoes…
A Balancing Act: Challenges to Pakistan’s Refugee Management
The situation in Afghanistan has become one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in August 2021. The dire situation on the ground has pushed 186,680 Afghan refugees and asylum seekers toward neighboring states.…
پاکستان کی خارجہ پالیسی میں شناخت کا تعین
پاکستان کی قومی شناخت آزادی کے وقت سے ہی اسرار کے پردوں میں چھپی ہوئی ہے حالانکہ مذہبی نظریہ، ریاست کے وجود کے لیے بنیادی توجیح فراہم کرتا ہے۔ تقسیم کے موقع پر مذہبی تفریق کے لیے پائی جانے والی…
Framing Identity within Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
Since independence, Pakistan’s national identity has remained enigmatic despite religious ideology informing the fundamental rationale for the state’s existence. This enigma can be understood by examining the excessive infatuation with religious differentiation at the time of Partition which led to…
The al-Zawahiri Strike and U.S. Counterterrorism in Afghanistan
On August 2, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul. Zawahiri’s death comes after two decades of military operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups that…
The Untenable TTP-Pakistan Negotiations
For much of the duration of the Afghan Taliban's insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)–formed officially in 2007 and one of Pakistan's deadliest terrorist groups–was a force multiplier for the Taliban. While the Taliban and Pakistan…