August 29, 2012 :
The raging wave of violence further surged across Pakistan during the current week. Meanwhile, the spree of target killings in Karachi (Sindh), clashes between military and militants in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and series of deadly attacks against members of the Shia sect, continued to make Pakistan toil and bleed during the week. The …
August 27, 2012 :
The latest rain of Hellfire missiles fired off CIA-operated drones on targets in Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas(FATA), offer Pakistan another excuse to protest the series of attacks that have killed some three dozen people between August 19 to August 24. The latest string of these multiple strikes on Friday, August 24, left …
August 18, 2012 :
The overall level of violence escalated substantially across Pakistan during the week. Meanwhile, the spree of target killings in Karachi (Sindh), military-militants’ clashes in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and series of bomb blasts rocked Pakistan during the week. The data collected (through ten newspapers that CRSS uses as the source) suggests that as many as …
August 10, 2012 :
The overall level of violence and the consequent fatalities subsided significantly across Pakistan during the current week. However, the largest metropolis and the busiest harbor city of the country, Karachi, continued to seethe under the ethno-political violence perpetrated by the warring factions – wherein 22 people were butchered during the course of current week. The …
August 9, 2012 :
The July 31 U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing for ambassadors-designate Richard Olson (for Pakistan) and James Cunningham (for Afghanistan) exemplified the contradictory nature of U.S. relations with Pakistan. The foreign policies of the two countries are at irreconcilable cross purposes, which may converge in time, but not in the foreseeable future. At the …
August 8, 2012 :
The month of July witnessed relatively lower levels of violence across Pakistan, yet, ethno-political violence in Karachi, religio-political terrorism in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, and the nationalist-separatist violence in Baluchistan continued to dominate Pakistan’s security landscape. Violence, predominantly led by the Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in FATA and …
August 7, 2012 :
Islamabad (August 6, 2012): The situation in Balochistan is hopelessly bleak primarily because of the absence of political will. The federal government has failed in addressing some of the most pressing issues of Balochistan. A free and fair election in the volatile province is the only hope. This was the general understanding among the participants …
Pakistan Conflict Tracker Report
(May 2013)
The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) has released two new documents on contemporary issues; one publication titled “State in Turmoil” is a compendium of five reports all of which primarily deal with security and governance issues of Pakistan in the year of 2012. The first report The Deadly Drone Campaign: Setting Dangerous Precedent: …
This CRSS report provides an historical overview of the evolution of the blasphemy laws in British India and the pre-partition political background behind it. It gives a detailed account of the blasphemy laws inherited by Pakistan and specifically highlights the blasphemy laws before and during the rule of General Zia-ul-Haq (July 1977-August 1988). Moreover, this …
