by Sangkook Lee | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
Introduction The suicide bombing in August 2nd, 2026 (in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, 14 people died and more than two dozen people were injured) is not only an accident, but also one of the main evidences showing personal...
by Dogan Gunes | Feb 1, 2025 | Sabanci University
The portrait of Imran Khan, carried by the supporters of the PTI. [Shahzaib Akber/EPA] Background Pakistan, along with Turkey (until the 2010s) and Thailand, is often viewed as one of the textbook cases for studying civil-military relations and tutelary democracy....
by Brendan Green | Apr 23, 2022 | Boston University
Faced with the threat of a no-confidence vote in parliament that he was likely to lose, Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an attempt to block his ouster, sent shockwaves through Pakistan by dissolving the National Assembly on April 3rd, 2022. In a televised speech, Khan...
by Sana Iqbal | Dec 4, 2021 | Suffolk University
Pakistan is a country in Southeast Asia where the military plays arguably the biggest part in its functionality or lack thereof. From 1951 to 2011 (60 years), the United States provided almost $67 billion to the Pakistani Army, allowing their power to surge. And in...
by Shania Darla Soriano | Jun 20, 2021 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 states that individuals who claim to belong to terrorist groups and create terror in the state must be arrested, detained, and subjected to the death penalty. Despite this law, terrorists remain able and free to form...
