Pakistan on the Edge
Publisher: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
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About the Report
The Pakistan Project of IDSA has come up with a second report titled Pakistan on the Edge. This Report takes into account various political developments in Pakistan focusing more on the events of the last two years and analyses its impact on the nation’s nascent democracy. The Report takes a broad view of the politics, emerging political alliances, economy, foreign policy, India-Pakistan relations and civil-military relations. Two chapters of this report focus on Pakistan’s English and Urdu language print media and how it looks at the critical issues of domestic and foreign policy.
Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I – Political Scenario: The Emerging Trends
— Amit Julka, Ashok Behuria and Sushant Sareen
Chapter II – Provinces: A Strained Federation
— Sushant Sareen and Ashok K Behuria
Chapter III – Militant Groups in Pakistan: New Coalition Old Politics
— Amit Julka and Shamshad Ahmad Khan
Chapter IV – Continuing Religious Radicalism and Widening Sectarian Divide
— P.K.Upadhaya
Chapter V – The Economy: Crisis Continues
— Sumita Kumar
Chapter VI – Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
— Sumita Kumar
Chapter VII – India-Pakistan Relations: Sign of Recovery or False Restart?
— Ashok K Behuria
Chapter VIII – Civil-Military Relations
— Smruti S Pattanaik
Chapter IX – Counter Insurgency Operations: An Assessment
— Smruti S Pattanaik, Sushant Sareen and Ashok K Behuria
Chapter-X – Reflections from the English Language Press
— Babjee Pothuraju and Medha Bisht
Chapter-XI – Reflections from the Urdu Language Press
— Shamshad Ahmed Khan
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I: English Langauges Press
Appendix II: Urdu Dailies
Appendix III: Pakistan Economic Outlook
Appendix IV: Economic Data
Contributors
Smruti S Pattanaik is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of Pakistan Project of IDSA
Ashok K Behuria is a Research Fellow and Coordinator, South Asia Centre of IDSA
Sumita Kumar is a Senior Research Associate at IDSA
Sushant Sareen is a Consultant with the Pakistan Project
P.K. Upadhayay is a Consultant with the Pakistan Project
Medha Bisht is currently Assistant Professor at the South Asian University
Shamshad Ahmed Khan is a Researcher at IDSA
Babjee Pothuraju is a Researcher at IDSA
Amit Julka is an Intern at IDSA
Ms Anwesha Ray Choudhury is a Researcher at IDSA
Other report of Pakistan Project
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir : Changing the Discourse
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