Publications

On Friday, June 18, 2021, Iran held its 13th presidential election. The election took place at a critical juncture for Iran, which is negotiating the United States’ return to the nuclear deal and removal of the American sanctions, besides struggling with a troubled economy...

For decades, Afghanistan has been at the forefront of Pakistan’s foreign policy and internal security. Owing to geography, people-to-people linkages, tribal affiliations, and the political economy of the border regions, Pakistan cannot remain insulated from the rapidly changing situation in Afghanistan. Among the regional...

Many Pakistan - and the world at large - have been wondering how a religious group has been agitating for the expulsion of the French Ambassador from the country, on account of “blasphemous” cartoons that were published and disseminated in France, and which were...

As Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) government prepared to present its third budget, Islambad Policy Institute organized a deep-dive session on the state of economic health of the country and issues that could have influenced the budget-making process. This year’s budget was particularly important as...

The second consecutive victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general election of 2019 was a successful culmination of a decades-long campaign to leverage Hindu nationalism in contemporary Indian political discourse. The democratic process has been used as a vehicle to achieve political...

China and Iran, two important powers in Asia, have indicated mutual interest in deepening bilateral cooperation. This could directly impact peace and stability in the Persian Gulf and can potentially increase the relative power of each nation as they respond to common external challenger:...

The recent Intifada began after a stream of Zionists stormed the Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem on an anticipated Supreme Court of Israel's decision to potentially displace six Palestinian families. An invasion of Zionist settlers into the Palestinian homes during the Holy Nights...

The indiscriminate bombing of Gaza by Israeli forces amounts to war crimes and deserves global condemnation. The silence of the global community has emboldened the Israeli government to commit grave human rights violations in the Occupied Territories. The United Nations (UN) appears to be...

The nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on May 28, 1998, were an act to balance the strategic stability in South Asia, which was disturbed by the nuclear experiments of India. The discriminatory treatment meted out to Pakistan by the US and international non-proliferation regimes...

The longstanding Palestine issue, which revolves around territorial and religious disputes dating back to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, reached a critical juncture after the normalization of relations between four Arab League countries – Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan...