Research & Policy Studies

Militant economy of Karachi

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Karachi is Pakistan’s financial hub and its most populous city with an estimated population of 23.5 million as of April 2013 (Khan, 2012a). While Islamabad is the political capital, Karachi is the country’s foremost commercial and financial centre. It accounts for the lion’s share in Pakistan’s gross domestic product and generates at least 60 percent … Read more

A review of National Internal Security Policy (2013-18)

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Pakistan’ s federal government announced the internal security policy 2013-18 on February 24, 2014. This was the first time that a political government announced its vision of internal security. The federal interior ministry had been assigned the task of formulating the new policy and came up with the first draft which was presented to the … Read more

Jamal Benhayoun hits bookstalls with ‘narration, navigation and colonialism’

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In this unique script, Prof Jamal, a member of Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies’(PIPS) Advisory Board, has tried to establish a connection between narration and navigation with strong arguments that heroes and authors of the 17th and 18th century English narrative adventures were involved in shipping and navigation. The author quoted several English narrations, and … Read more

Understanding North Punjab in the context of Pakistani diaspora in Britain

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A census report by the Institute for Public Policy Research in London counted that 7.53 percent of Britain’s population in 2001 was born overseas.2 Among the top non-UK birthplaces of Britain’s population, Pakistan was ranked third after Republic of Ireland and India.3 British Pakistanis mainly hail from three parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir: Mirpur, … Read more