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Pakistan’s New Government: Are there reasons for Hope?
Sanjiv Khanna

The 2018 General Elections in Pakistan are over and the Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Party (PTI) emerged as the single largest Party in the National Assembly, and formed the Government. Most of the parties alleged rigging and refused to a

August 29, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, Pakistan Government, Imran and Islamists, Legitimacy of civilian leadership
Building Dams with Donations
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

So dire is Pakistan’s financial health that it has been reduced to mobilise money from individual donors to build infrastructure projects which will cost hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees. In his first speech after becoming the Prime Minist

August 28, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Commentary, Pakistan’s dam building, Pakistan’s financial crisis
Imran Khan: Political Inclinations
Shruti Punia

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the largest party with 115 seats in the National Assembly, besides winning two-third seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KP) provincial assembly and emerging as the second largest party in the Punjab assembly

August 09, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, New government in Pakistan, Politician Imran Khan
Pakistan’s Elections and ‘Naya’ Pakistan?
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Election for Pakistan’s National Assembly saw Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party doubling its vote share from 16.32 percent in the 2013 elections to 31.8 percent. Its seat share went up from 28 to 115. In case of Pakistan Muslim L

August 08, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, Pakistan Elections, Pakistan voting trend
Pakistan Army and Imran Khan: From Macro to Micro Management Post Polls
Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle

In surveying the outcome and post-election trends in Pakistan two clichés come to mind, “the more things change the more they remain the same,” and “while states have armies, Pakistan Army has a state”. To the world, elections to the Nat

August 02, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Commentary, Post-Election trends in Pakistan, Military control in Pakistan
The Pakistan Elections 2018
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF

According to the preliminary results announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)at the time of writing, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the largest political party in the country. It has won 115 of the 270 Nati

August 01, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, Pakistan Elections, New government in Pakistan
No Need to Engage Imran Khan Prematurely
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The coverage that the Pakistani elections has received in our media has been out of proportion to our stakes in its outcome. Of course, the election process in a neighbouring country like Pakistan, with which our relations remain most difficult, shou

August 01, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Featured, Article, Engaging Imran Khan, Imran’s platitudes
Pakistan under Imran Khan - What’s in it for Indo-Pak Relations
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Whoever heard Pakistan’s Prime Minister (Designate) Imran Khan speak on 26 Jul 2018, after it became quite evident that the election had gone his way, would have had to change his image in the mind’s eye to make any sense of it at all. We have se

July 28, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Commentary, Imran Khan, Indo-Pakistan relations
पाकिस्तान – फाइनेंशियल एक्शन टास्क फोर्स (एफएटीएफ) से बढ़ती मुश्किलें
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF

फाइनेंशियल एक्शन टास्क फोर्स (एफएटीएफ)1 के एशिया प्रशांत समूह (एपीजी) का दो दिन का पूर्ण अधिव

July 17, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Hindi, Article, फाइनेंशियल एक्शन टास्क फोर्स, पाकिस्तान का आतंकवाद को वित्तीय मदद
Pakistan on Financial Action Task Force ‘Grey List’
Shruti Punia

After a long period of dormancy Pakistan finally enters the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) list which comes as no rude awakening to either of its neighbours, India as well as China. The FATF took the imminent decision to place Pakistan on its

July 12, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Commentary, Grey-list FATF, Financing Terrorism
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