CRSS Security Report - Jan. to Nov., 2025 During the first eleven months of 2025, Pakistan witnessed an over 25% surge in overall violence in its security landscape, recording at...
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From Shari Baloch to Zareena Rafiq: The Gendered Evolution of Baloch Militancy
Date: 01,Dec, 2025 When a woman walks into a heavily guarded military compound with explosives strapped to her body, it forces a rethink of everything we assume about insurgency,...
IMF Report Exposes Tragic Decay of Pakistan’s FBR
Date: 24, November, 2025 By Engineer Arshad H Abbasi At a time when Pakistan is struggling to stabilize its economy, rebuild public trust, and meet the conditionalities of yet...
Evidence, Ecology, and Equity: Nasira Habib on Pakistan’s Food Systems
Nasira Habib, an educationist and environmentalist known for her work on feminism, gender justice, food education, and early childhood learning, spoke about Pakistan’s pressing...
A Blunt IMF Verdict: Governance Failures Are Pakistan’s Core Economic Drag
By Javed Hassan The IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) for Pakistan released by the Ministry of Finance on November 19, 2025, as a prior action for the...
CRSS Roundtable Calls for Unconditional Peace Overtures and Political Will Amid Heightened Pak-Afghan Tensions
The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), Islamabad, convened a roundtable to examine the rapidly deteriorating state of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations, marked by...
Lifetime Immunity for Heads of State — Implications for Law, Democracy, and Accountability
Policy Brief Most democracies recognise temporary immunity for sitting leaders to ensure uninterrupted governance and prevent politically motivated litigation. Countries such as...
Pakistan-Afghanistan Deadlock
Don’t Give Up Rational Engagement By Imtiaz Gul In this piece, CRSS Executive Director Imtiaz Gul argues that Pakistan and Afghanistan’s ongoing mistrust and tit-for-tat...
Adapting to Change: Afghanistan’s Economic Outlook Amid Regional Pressures
By Abdul Waheed Waheed Afghanistan’s strategic diversification of trade routes through Central Asia and Iran has reduced its economic reliance on Pakistan, lessening the impact...
Chinese and Pakistani Experts Call for Enhanced Cooperation to Strengthen Strategic Partnership and Regional Stability
Regional stability is fundamental to the future of the Pakistan-China partnership, emphasized the leading Chinese and Pakistani scholars and experts during a high-level...
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