CRSS – Center for Research and Security Studies – Pakistan Focused, Independent Questions, Independent Answers

January 4, 2013 :

In its newly published warfare doctrine manual ‘Green Book’ Pakistani military has added a new chapter titled ‘sub-conventional warfare’. The new addition suggests, that  the military has finally acknowledged “internal dynamics” as the real security threat to the country. According to this new warfare doctrine, military will focus on threats lying within the state like …

December 5, 2012 :

A recent workshop on Effective Programming for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) at Brussels drew experts, academics and analysts from all over the world to provide practical ideas on how to programme, identify, formulate, implement, and evaluate European Union’s assistance on CVE. Most of the debate was premised on the recognition in the last decade or …

October 23, 2012 :

If somebody thought the attack on Malala Yousufzai, a 14 years old young girl fatally wounded by Taliban gunmen on October 9, 2012 in Swat Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, amounted to Pakistan’s “moment of action”, it was sheer delusion. Then there were others, including leading commentators and analysts who insisted that this life-threatening assault had …

September 28, 2012 :

Brussels: Addressing the first of the European Peace and Studies Programme Lecture Series of 2012, at Free University of Brussels , Imtiaz Gul, Executive Director CRSS, said conflicting interests of various actors in the extended South Asian region – India, Pakistan, China, Iran and the United States – do not augur well for peace and …

June 21, 2012 :

In June 2012, CRSS achieved an unparalleled landmark; i.e. roughly 1,500 radio shows in humanitarian information and strategic communication for communities affected by conflict and crisis. It began in October 2009, with a 30-minute, 7 days a week humanitarian information intervention in response to the Swat crisis in partnership with Internews, USA. Given the socio-political …

February 13, 2012 :

Introduction Energy security, being the principal driving factor behind the economic development of any state, has been remained the most contested field among states in post- industrial world. Energy, on the one hand, is essential for running the machinery of industrial and agricultural units, lighting up the cities, while on the other hand it is …

December 14, 2011 :

The year 2011 is likely to go down in history as a watershed in the Pakistan-US relations. The relations touched an all-time low with the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO-attack from Afghanistan on Nov 26th, triggering a series of events which suggest that continued US-NATO pressures have unintentionally invited an unusual show …

November 2, 2011 :

ISLAMABAD: Wednesday (November 02, 2011): Against the backdrop of recent surge in political temperature, speakers at a roundtable discussion forum stress the need for continuation of democratic process despite of all the current challenges faced by it. In a roundtable discussion forum “Political Expediency and the Future of Democracy in Pakistan” organized by the Center …

October 27, 2011 :

Following Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton’s Oct 21st visit to Islamabad, Pakistan-US relations are likely to head out of months of tensions that had begun with the May 2nd raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden in the hilly town of Abbottabad. During her intensive interaction with the government and the civil society in …

October 19, 2011 :

The recent outburst from US defence heads, calling the Haqqani Network a veritable arm of the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence), has badly hit the loosely balanced US-Pak relations.  A major portion of military aid for Pakistan has been suspended amid growing concerns over the military’s role in supporting the terrorist outfits operating in Afghanistan[i]. Diplomatic ties are …