When young students can get up in front of an audience and argue in favour of a new law theyoppose, you know democracy and tolerance are at work. This was the beauty of a debate...
Mustafa Malik
Performance Evaluation: K-P Assembly outshines Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly outperformed any other provincial assembly in the country during parliamentary year 2014-15, scoring 44 per...
TTP and Media in Pakistan
Ever since its creation in December 2007, Pakistan’s most vicious terrorist group the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been at odds with the country’s mainstream media. At...
Success Lies in the Rule of Law
The recent demolition of an illegally constructed seminary in an Islamabad graveyard, on the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), comes as a silver lining in the country’s...
‘Not a Perfect World’
EXPRESSING dissatisfaction over Pakistan’s latest ranking in the Corruption Perception Index, President Mamnoon Hussain told the National Accountability Bureau some time ago to...
Zarb-e-Azb, One Year On
A year ago this month, Pakistan launched a multi-pronged military operation in the embattled North Waziristan tribal region to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked local and foreign...
CRSS completes first of three trainings under the Harnessing Future Leaders project
On Sunday, June 14, 2015, the Center for Research and Security Studies concluded its three-day training and capacity building exercise with selected youth of the Khyber...
Encirclement of Pakistan: What awaits Pakistan under the Growing Indo-Afghan Relations?
Contributed by Ms. Sitwat Waqar, CRSS Research Fellow. Context For years, particularly since the unfolding of the anti-terror war in October 2001, apprehensions of encirclement...
CRSS launches Harnessing Future Leaders
The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) is set to kick-off a unique youth training program for talented young people with leadership abilities, drawn from educational...
The Woes of Selective Justice
On June 8, 2015, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested 17 executives at the Axact branch office in Islamabad. A case was registered against CEO Shoaib Shaikh, his wife...
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