NIAS Area Studies


PAKISTAN READER

NIAS Area Studies: Pakistan

Pakistan Reader is a part NIAS Area Studies initiatives. It aims to study contemporary Pakistan and tries to analyse social, economic, political, cultural, external and security developments.

NIAS Pakistan Reader is also a capacity building exercise; it aims to nurture young scholars in India working on Pakistan, and a build a network of Pakistan scholars across the world.

NIAS Pakistan Reader publishes an Evening Brief at 1600 hrs everyday, Pakistan Weekly and regular analysis – comments and essays. It also conducts an online course on contemporary Pakistan.

Regular Publications

NIAS Pakistan Weekly
Torkham border: Pakistan and Afghanistan relations

PR Commentary Torkham border: Pakistan and Afghanistan relations By Shamini Velayutham Customs clearance agents, laborers, and members of local organizations held a protest demonstration. They said that the closing of the Torkham border was an economic murder of those involved in cross-border trade and other manual labor. On 08 September, thousands of civilians were trapped, and hundreds of trucks were unable to transfer commodities between Pakistan and Afghanistan due to the main border...

PR Team
2 October 2023
PR Comments
Profile: Street Crimes in Karachi

On 8 April, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) noted that the law-and-order situation in Karachi had “deteriorated alarmingly,” pointing out that in 2023, “tens of thousands of street crimes were registered by the police” wherein “over a hundred people lost their...

Dhriti Mukherjee
9 April 2024
PR Short Notes
Pakistan's narrow tax base: Failures so far, challenges ahead

What is the tax base? Currently, Pakistan’s tax-to-GDP ratio stands at 11.4 per cent with an existing gap equivalent to 7.6 per cent of GDP.  As of 26 December 2023, the number of active taxpayers (ATL) in Pakistan reached 5.3 million, of which the number of individual taxpayers was 3.69...

15 April 2024 | GP Short Notes # 867
PR Report
Return of Nawaz Sharif: An Analysis

PR Commentary Return of Nawaz Sharif: An Analysis  By Shamini Velayutham   On 21 October, Nawaz Sharif returned home to launch his party's campaign ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2024, following four years of self-imposed exile in London. Nawaz, who was previously...

PR Team
7 November 2023

Events

About the team

Femy Francis

Research Assistant, NIAS

Shamini Velayutham

Research Assistant

Dhriti Mukherjee

Research Assistant

Rohini Reenum

PhD Scholar

Ankit Singh

PhD Scholar