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The Kashmir issue remains a legally valid and internationally recognized struggle for the right to self-determination, ...
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Pakistan’s economy in the first six months of FY2025-26 shows a mixed picture of ...
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The International Waqf and Zakat Conference 2026 aims to bring together scholars, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and development ...
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The rise of China is not aimed at nullifying the contemporary global order but at reshaping ...
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IPS conceived and implemented an action-research and community-engagement initiative focused on the principles of the circular ...
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The October – December 2025 issue of IPS News – the quarterly newsletter of Institute of Policy Studies – is ...
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This book is a collection of Professor Khurshid Ahmad’s spontaneous writings, largely composed on the ...
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The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad, organized an in-house capacity building session for its interns ...
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International RelationsPakistan and its NeighboursPolicy InsightsResearch
This policy insight examines the growing role of the “Pakistan factor” in India’s political communication and electoral ...
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Pakistan’s economy is passing through a critical phase marked by fragile macroeconomic stabilization alongside deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. ...
EnergyPolicy BriefResearch
Water security in Pakistan is increasingly threatened by climate change and India’s growing non-compliance with the Indus ...
EnergyPolicy BriefResearch
Pakistan’s power sector faces persistent structural challenges, including DISCO inefficiencies, high generation costs, and rising circular debt, ...
International RelationsPolicy InsightsResearch
This write-up examines the recent escalation in Pakistan–Afghanistan tensions, highlighting the shift from strategic restraint to a ...
International RelationsPolicy InsightsResearch
This policy comment examines the economic fallout of the Iran–US and Israel conflict for Pakistan, with a ...
International RelationsPolicy InsightsResearch
This analysis by Brig (r) Said Nazir, senior associate, IPS, examines the evolving Iran vs US-Israel war and ...
Pakistan AffairsReportResearch
Pakistan’s economic recovery is gaining momentum faster than anticipated, with large-scale manufacturing rebounding from contraction to 4.8% growth ...
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The decades-long established world order is weakening, but what comes next, and where does Pakistan fit in? As ...
How is the China factor reshaping US–EU relations and pushing Europe toward strategic autonomy? In this discussion, ...
'There is a need to reclaim the historiography', says Prof Dr Bülent Şenay (Department of Philosophy and ...
Dr Saira Nawaz Abbasi, senior assistant professor, Department of Politics and IR, Bahria University, Islamabad, delivering a presentation ...
Taimur Fahad Khan, research associate, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, delivering a presentation on 'Converging Pakistan-Russia Strategic Interests ...
Prof Dr Adam Saud, dean Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, addressing a hybrid seminar ‘...
Brig (r) Tughral Yamin, former associate dean, Centre of International Peace and Stability, NUST, delivering a presentation on ...
Ambassador (r) Syed Abrar Hussain, vice chairman, IPS, addressing a session on ‘Kashmir Solidarity and Voices of Youth’, ...

















