NIAS Area Studies


PAKISTAN READER

NIAS Area Studies: Pakistan

Pakistan Reader, as an Area Studies initiative at NIAS, aims to study contemporary Pakistan through the following verticals: social, political, cultural, external and security, with a special focus on economy, energy and S&T.

NIAS Pakistan Reader is also a capacity-building exercise. It aims to nurture young scholars in India working on Pakistan and build a network of Pakistan scholars worldwide. It also organizes regular workshops for young scholars to improve their skills and understanding of contemporary Pakistan.

NIAS-PR publishes a Daily Brief, Pakistan Weekly, Pakistan Monitor monthly 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
Pakistan and Freedom of Expression: Eight Takeaways from the Freedom Network Report

On 3 May, the Freedom Network released its annual Pakistan Freedom of Expression and Media Report 2024, titled ‘Erosion of free speech: The silencing of citizens, political parties and media.’ The 54-page report divided into nine chapters provided an “annual trend analysis of the state...

Dhriti Mukherjee
7 May 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
Karachi: Seven Shades of Violence

Targeting Japanese nationals in Karachi might have been a case of mistaken identity. The reasons and the perpetrators either belong to Balochistan, or they represent the multiple shades of violence that the city of lights has been witnessing during the recent decades. On 19 April 2024, a suicide bomber...

D Suba Chandran
6 May 2024
PR DAILY BRIEF
Pakistan Army demands Imran Khan’s sincere and public apology

In Brief PR EXCLUSIVE UPDATE #14 PUNJAB WHEAT CRISIS Former Caretaker PM Kakar declines to blame provinces for the wheat import scandal On 7 May, while addressing a press conference, Former Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar declined blaming provinces for the excessive import of wheat, claiming...

8 May 2024, Wednesday| Vol 5, No.92

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About the team

Femy Francis

Research Assistant, NIAS

Shamini Velayutham

Research Assistant

Dhriti Mukherjee

Research Assistant

Rohini Reenum

PhD Scholar

Ankit Singh

PhD Scholar