Pakistan is gradually coming out of a cold war era mindset. A lot of analysis on the current day Pakistan, particularly by American, Indian and Afghan commentators, continues to...
Mustafa Malik
Al-Qaeda’s Women Wing in Pakistan: The Shaheen Force
The Al-Qaeda core operating from tribal areas of Pakistan is keen to compete with its splinter, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) at all levels. To match the...
The law, the poor & the rich
Ayaan’s case is a classic example of how collusion of legal experts on both sides of the fence can blatantly obfuscate crime and delay trials. Taking advantage of the dated...
Counter-Terrorism and Pakistan Police
Pakistan is home to an estimated 200 million people, spread over six regions including the provinces of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab and Sind, and the...
Al-Qaeda’s Women Wing in Pakistan: The Shaheen Force
The Al-Qaeda core operating from tribal areas of Pakistan is keen to compete with its splinter, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) at all levels. To match the...
Voices from Balochistan
This report draws on over 80 radio nationally syndicated shows that the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) produced and aired in 2014-2015. These shows were titled...
Chinese Strategic Rise and Asia Pacific Region
Imtiaz Gul, Executive Director, CRSS, read this paper at the conference Security Trends in the Asia Pacific Region: Prospects and Challenges for Pakistan held at the National...
Hate speech & intolerance
As the debate over illegal immigrant workers who were heading towards Europe via sea, rages on, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has drawn global...
Cybercrime, security and rights
Pakistani politicians, their advisers and bureaucrats are masters of creating deception. Their propensity to inflict crises and shoot themselves in the foot in self-defence also...
Vision and actions
Pakistan will have to overcome a number of challenges to meet the expectations of its ‘iron brother’ President Xi Jinping’s two day visit marked the formal launch of the China...
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