No.

89
October-December 2016

Quarter in Focus
The relocation of its offices started a new
chapter in the illustrious 37-year journey of
IPS, a happening that was later celebrated
with the Institute's associates in an Eid Milan
and Open House. The hardworking team of
IPS, despite being overly engaged throughout
the quarter in managing the shifting - mainly in
the holy month of Ramazan - made sure that
the academic activities at the Institute continue
to be held regularly.
Several insightful discussions held at IPS
during the last quarter deliberated upon
diverse issues. The seminar on CPEC's
prospects for Pakistani business community
advised business owners to invest in research
and development for integration into the new
global value chains. A session on Pakistan's
exclusive economic zone stressed on
exploiting the country's maritime potential.
Another session on Kashmir urged the world
community to take notice of continuous
international law violations in IHK. A discussion
about 15 years of 9/11 underscored the need
for a proactive foreign policy.

(L-R): Cdr (r) Dr. Azhar Ahmad, Rear Admiral (r) Salim Akhtar and DG-IPS Khalid Rahman

Pakistans Exclusive Economic Zone: Opportunities,

Challenges and Strategies

Lack of awareness about its enormous

maritime potential, especially among the ruling
elite, was failing Pakistan as a nation to exploit
its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the
Indian Ocean up to 200 nautical miles along
the countrys 1000km coastline which is
extremely rich in biodiversity, seafood,
minerals and hydrocarbon resources and

IPS LEAD organized a seminar: Brainstorming

Research Ideas for emerging researchers
enrolled in PhD, MPhil and LLM programs. A
couple of workshops on citizen journalism in
collaboration with Pakistan Youth Change
Advocates were also organized.
Three studies one on the recent developments in Kashmir, second on Hindu Marriage
Law in Pakistan and third on Irans Nuclear
Deal Stability were brought forth by the
research team while the second issue of 2016
of IPS flagship bi-annual journal Policy
Perspectives came out during the period.

This was the crux of a seminar titled

Pakistans Exclusive Economic Zone:
Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies held
at IPS on August 11, 2016. An overarching
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CPEC Opportunities & Impediments: Prospects for

Business Community

DG-IPS chaired a session in a two-day

conference on State of Pakistans Economy
at IoBM, Karachi, while IPS also partnered
with Fatima Jinnah Women University to
produce a conference titled Peace and
Security in South and Central Asia.
An MoU with Irans foreign ministrys think tank
paved way for carrying out joint studies and
conferences on regional issues.

covers an area more than the size of Punjab

and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces
combined.

Zaheeruddin Dar

Pakistans
business community should prepare
itself to be part of
CPEC-connecting
new international
value chains and
invest in research
and development

to enhance its capacity to meet the challenges

and reap the opportunities the Chinese
initiative was set to create in the near future.
This was the crux of a seminar held at IPS on
August 26, 2016, titled CPEC Opportunities
and Impediments: Prospects for Business
Community, which was addressed by
Zaheeruddin Dar, CBI Expert &Trainer, Centre
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Developments in Kashmir: Dynamics & the Way

Forward
A seminar titled Developments in Kashmir:
Dynamics and the Way Forward was held at
IPS on July 26, 2016.
The seminar, chaired by Ambassador (retd)
Ayaz Wazir, was addressed by Ahmer Bilal
Soofi, chairperson, United Nations Human
Rights Expert Advisory Committee, and former
federal law minister, Ghulam Muhammad Safi,
convener, Tehreek-e-Huriyyat, Kashmir and

representative of
Syed Ali Geelani,
Khalid Rahman,
director general,
IPS, Dr Muhammad Khan,
professor of
international
relations, and

Ahmer Bilal Soofi

Continued on Page 02

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15 Years of 9/11 and War on Terror: Pakistan-Impact and Future Approaches

demands vis--vis the military action in
Afghanistan due to Indias offer to provide
bases to NATO for the same and to counter its
maneuvering to portray Pakistan as an
unreliable ally of the US and a supporter of
terrorism.

(L-R): Lt. Gen (r) Asad Durrani, Amb (r) M. Akram Zaki, Amb (r) Zameer Akram, Air Cdre (r) Khalid Iqbal

US is not interested in stabilizing Afghanistan

or the region; rather it is promoting creative
instability in the Middle East and South Asia
as a design to serve its own interests and
those of Israel and India, claimed M. Akram
Zaki, former secretary general foreign affairs,
in his concluding remarks at a conference held
on September 29, 2016. He also quoted
Zbigniew Brzenizskis (called as the man
behind Obamas policies) words, it is easier to
kill a million people than to control them while

Continued from Page - 01 Developments in Kashmir:

Dynamics & the Way
Forward
Awais bin Wasi, Kashmir analyst.
The speakers urged the world community to
take notice of the recent and continuous
violations of international humanitarian law by
Indian forces in Kashmir.
They underscored the need for increased
meaningful advocacy efforts for the cause of
Kashmir in the international arena and
criticized India for misguiding the world,
through what they described as political
fraud, to believe that Kashmir was either an
integral part of India or a bilateral dispute
between India and Pakistan.
The academic event was attended by a large
number of researchers, members of the civil
society, journalists, diplomats and students.
For detailed report, visit:
http://www.ips.org.pk/whats-new/92-seeminar/
2024-developments-in-kashmir-dynamics-and-theway-forward

describing the hubristic policies of the US

post-9/11.
The academic event titled 15 Years of 9/11 &
War on Terror was addressed by Lt. Gen
(retd) Asad Durrani, former DG-ISI and
Ambassador (retd) Zameer Akram and was
moderated by IPS associate Air Commodore
(retd) Khalid Iqbal.
The speakers were of the opinion that General
Musharraf was forced to comply with US

Ambassador Akram who was privy to the deal

with the US in this regard informed that
Pakistan realized at that time that Taliban
regime will not be able to survive the military
action led by US and had given assurance to
the US that it will support its fight against
Al-Qaeda but not the Taliban. Also, it was
advised to the US that it should refrain from
dealing with the Afghan warlords who were
responsible for creating all the mess in their
country and also the new leadership in
Afghanistan should be developed in accordance to the Afghan traditions. Unfortunately,
all three points suggested by Pakistan fell on
deaf ears, he added.
For detailed report, visit:
http://ips.org.pk/whats-new/92-seeminar/
2045-15-years-of-911-and-war-on-terror-pakistanimpact-and-future-approaches

IPS signs MoU with Iranian think tank IPIS

A landmark MoU between IPS and Institute for
Political and International Studies (IPIS),
Tehran a foreign policy think tank affiliated
with Irans ministry of foreign affairs was
signed during a visit of a five-member IPIS
delegation led by its president and Irans
deputy foreign minister Dr Seyed Kazem
Sajjadpour on August 9, 2016.

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Economic Zone: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies
authority at the federal level to look after the
maritime affairs of the country was the key
proposal.
The main speaker of the interactive session
was Commander (retd) Dr Azhar Ahmad,
senior IPS associate and head of social
sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, while
Rear Admiral (r) Salim Akhtar was in the chair.
It was attended by a number of officials from
various government ministries and armed
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forces, policy analysts and researchers.

The seminar was also apprised that after the
lapse of several years the outdated national
maritime policy of 2002 has been revised with
the input of the concerned ministries and has
been forwarded to the cabinet division for
further processing.
For detailed report, visit:
http://ips.org.pk/whats-new/92-seeminar/2031-pakistansexclusive-economic-zone-opportunities-challenges-andstrategies

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South China Sea: Emerging Scenario

A View from Pakistan

Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad

organized a roundtable on South China Sea:
Emerging Scenario A View from Pakistan on
July 13, 2016.

Asia-Pacific region. Thus, IPS is of the view

that it is an issue of high significance for the
state of Pakistan, its people and their
wide-ranging regional and global interests.

The event was organized in the backdrop of

July 12, 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration (PCA) based in Hague, on South
China Sea.

The events and happenings of past few

years in SCS highlight that it is in the
interests of all the parties as well as peace
and stability at large that all the issues,
claims and counter-claims concerning SCS
are resolved amicably, avoiding tensions
and conflicts.

The session was chaired by Khalid Rahman,

Director General IPS while Irfan Shahzad,
Lead Coordinator and Ms. Fareeha Sarwar,
research team member were the main
discussants.
The outcomes of the session are as follows:
South China Sea (SCS) assumes critical
position in terms of intra- and inter-continental maritime contacts as well as utmost
significance for peace and stability in the

The ruling of the PCA prima facie seems

lopsided, and comes without taking into
account the Chinese arguments and
position on the dynamics of the issue. IPS
believes that the hearing without the
participation of one key party, i.e., China is
rendered holding lesser moral ground and
should not have taken place, to start with..
Post-ruling, it is in the interest of all the
parties to avoid taking the ruling as a
victory of someone or the defeat of
someone else.

Religion in Central Asia:

A Case Study of
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
IPS researcher Fehmeeda Khalid presented
her study: "Review of Religion in Central Asia:
A Case Study of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on
August 30, 2016. The session was chaired by
A.I. Shafaq Hashmi, senior fellow at IPS.

Inheritance Laws and

Practices in Pakistan
IPS associate Asma Mushtaq Advocate gave
a presentation on Inheritance Laws and
Practices in Pakistan on September 5, 2016.
The session was chaired by DG-IPS Khalid
Rahman.

For detailed report, visit:

http://www.ips.org.pk/whats-new/77-in-housesession/2023-south-china-sea-emergingscenario-a-view-from-pakistan

Continued from Page - 01 - CPEC Opportunities & Impediments

for International Entrepreneurship and Trade
as the key speaker while Saeed Qureshi,
former federal secretary, chaired the session.
Advising the traders and industrialists to
augment their production competency by
improving their research-based design and
development, Dar urged the business owners
to must realize the potential associated with
CPEC, which was the most important of the
six components of the greater One Belt One

Road (OBOR) initiative of China.

He emphasized that the business community
in Pakistan should proactively build its
capacity to ride upon the immense opportunities coming up with CPEC, which despite
being a very big initiative itself, should not be
looked in isolation.
For detailed report, visit:
http://ips.org.pk/whats-new/92-seeminar/
2038-cpec-opportunities-and-impedimentsprospects-for-business-community

FATA Reforms Committee

Report

Mairaj-ul-Hamid Nasri, IPS research team

member, coordinated an in-house discussion
on FATA Reforms Committee Report on
September 7, 2016, which was also attended
by IPS associates Brig (r) Said Nazir,
Ambassador (r) Ayaz Wazir and senior
journalists Hassan Khan and Mulla Khel.

Mairaj-ul-Hamid Nasri and Amb (r) Ayaz Wazir

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Balochistan Discontent:
Genesis and Aspects

IPS Research Coordinator, Syed Nadeem

Farhat Gillani gave a presentation on
Balochistan Discontent: Genesis and
Aspects on September 19, 2016. Khalid
Rahman, DG IPS chaired the session.

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Sharing Insights
DG-IPS participates in
IoBM conference on
State of Pakistans
Economy

DG-IPS Khalid Rahman was invited to attend

and chair a session in a two-day conference
State of Pakistans Economy: Issues and
Challenges in the 21st Century in Karachi,
organized by Institute of Business Management (IoBM) on September 27-28, 2016.
The conference, which attempted to initiate a
debate on the countrys economic fluctuations,
deliberated upon several aspects pertaining to
the countrys economy including, but not
limited to: agriculture, industry, income
distribution, debt, public revenue and
expenditure, governance issues, etc.

Researchers from Sichuan

University, China
IPS, as part of its China Studies Program,
hosted a two-member Chinese delegation
comprising Dr. Zeng Xiangyu and Ji Jingfeng
from Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS),
Sichuan University, Chengdu, on July 28-29.

Delegation of Turkish
students

A delegation of Turkish students, who were

visiting Pakistan as part of a student
exchange program, visited IPS on September 22, 2016.
The guests were briefed about the Institutes
history and activities in a presentation,
before exchanging views with IPS team
members on the topics of mutual interest.

Indigenizing Policy Research Initiative

IPS LEAD the learning,
excellence and development program of IPS
organized a consultative
meeting for its Indigenizing Policy Research
Initiative on August 18,
2016.
The meeting, which was
attended by IPS
associates representing senior research
faculty in social sciences, deliberated upon
ideas and suggestions to establish an
ecosystem that could help reap the benefits of

the countrys knowledge economy by setting

its direction towards indigenous needs and
meaningful, futuristic results.

IPS co-hosts international conference on

Peace and Security in South and Central Asia
An international conference on Peace and
Security in South and Central Asia was
co-hosted by IPS with Fatima Jinnah Women
University, Rawalpindi, on September 23,
2016. The event was also addressed by the
President of Pakistan Mamnon Hussain as a
chief guest and gathered a sizeable number
of researchers, academia, officials and
practitioners from Pakistan and abroad.
IPS assistant research coordinator Fehmeeda Khalid presented a paper on the occasion
titled Russian Influence over Central Asia:
Evolution and Prospects. The paper was
co-authored by IPS lead coordinator Irfan

Eid Milan & Open House

In order to formally introduce, inaugurate and
celebrate the new office premises with its
staff, associates and contacts, IPS organized
a full day 'Eid Milan and Open House' on July
16, 2016.
A large number of IPS' associates, alumni
and dignitaries representing various shades
of Pakistani intelligentsia visited the Institute
on the day and appreciated the new setting
which included the seminar facilities, library
and IPS Press bookshop.
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Shahzad, who earlier represented the

Institute in the inaugural session of the
academic event along with team members
Fatima Habib and Waqar-un-Nisa.

Fehmeeda Khalid receiving a memento from

Dr Naheed Zia Khan, dean, social sciences, FJWU

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Brainstorming Research Ideas

It is important for a Pakistani researcher to get

his/her research published in an international
journal but it is more important that the
research being produced is useful for our
country and the society as well. HEC has done
a great job by increasing the research output
of the countrys universities however there is a
lot to be done on the qualitative side.
This was unanimously conveyed by leading
policy researchers and practitioners in a

seminar titled Brainstorming Research Ideas

held under the auspices of IPS LEAD as part
of its Indigenizing Policy Research Initiative
on September 21, 2016.
The key speakers included Dr Asad Zaman,
vice chancellor, PIDE University, Khalid
Rahman, DG-IPS, Dr Tahir Hijazi, Governance
& Reforms, Planning Commission, Air Cdre (r)
Khalid Banuri, DG-ACDA, Strategic Plans
Division, Ahmer Bilal Soofi Advocate,

Workshops on 'Citizen Journalism'

president, Research Society for International

Law, and Dr Naheed Zia Khan, dean, social
sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University.
The seminar was attended by around 120
research students with a number of their
supervisors and faculty members.
For detailed report, visit:
http://ips.org.pk/eventsupdates/whatnew/
trainingworkshop/2042-brainstorming-researchideas-need-for-indigenous-approach-stressed

IPS LEAD partners in

HHRDs Youth Leadership
Conference
IPS LEAD partnered with HHRD Helping
Hand for Relief and Development in organizing the International Youth Conference 2016
on August 1-2, 2016.

IPS LEAD - the Learning, Excellence and

Development Program of Institute of Policy
Studies (IPS), Islamabad - in collaboration with
Pakistan Youth Change Advocates (PYCA),
organized a couple of two-day workshops on
'Citizen Journalism', for male and female
students of media sciences/mass communication separately, on July 28-29 and August 1-2,
2016.
The workshop was part of IPS LEAD's efforts
to actively engage and capacitate the youth of
Pakistan - which forms more than 60 per cent
of the countrys population - in promoting

policy-oriented knowledge creation for nation

building and progress.
The activity was conducted as part of a MoU
that was signed between IPS LEAD and PYCA
earlier in May; aimed at harnessing Pakistans
youth potential through capacity building
exercises. The MoU was later followed up by a
Training of Trainers which was also attended
by Naufil Shahrukh, head of Outreach,
Trainings and Publications at IPS.
For detailed report, visit:
http://www.ips.org.pk/eventsupdates/whatnew/
trainingworkshop/2026-workshops-on-citizen-journalism

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Naufil Shahrukh, IPS head of Outreach,

Trainings and Publications spoke as a guest
speaker on the topic of Youth Engagement for
Social Reconstruction and Values in four
training sessions of the event facilitated by IPS
LEAD associate and youth trainer Nisar Moosa.

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Policy Perspectives (Vol. 13, No. 2)

The next article Middle East Refugees Crisis:
Europeans Three Dimensional Approaches
explores as to how the human-rights-championing European Union its institutions,
individual governments and the people at large
have responded, rather reacted to the new
wave of refugees affected by the ongoing
wave of violence and instability in the Middle
East, specifically Syria.
The fourth article Pan-Arabism: A Tool of
Ruling Elites or a Politically-Relevant Ideology? is also related to the wider Middle East
region, exploring whether Pan-Arabism is
really any politically-relevant theory in todays
times or it is only a tool of the ruling elites of
the region, for their own vested interests.

The latest edition of peer-reviewed IPS

flagship journal Policy Perspectives - disseminating the research carried out by IPS and its
associates on diverse range of current and
evolving topics - is out now and is widely
available for the readers in Pakistan and
abroad.
The first article of the issue Realizing
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Need for an Indigenous Approach focuses on
SDGs, looking into an all-important question
as to how indigenous values and approaches
can be brought into play in the journey towards
attainment of these goals.
The second article Islamic Insurance:
Evolution, Models and Issues sheds light on
the historical development and evolution of the
concept of Islamic insurance Takaful and
diverse working models experienced over past
three and half decades for its practical
implementation, in different parts of the Muslim
World.

The next article U.S.-Israel Special Aid

Relationship Dynamics and Implications for
Pakistan, digs deep into the dynamics of this
peculiar bondage and its implications for that
part of the world, as well as for the wider
periphery and countries such as Pakistan.
The sixth contribution Afghanistan: Finding
Peace Amidst Chaos gives an account of the
efforts and initiatives aimed at achieving
intra-Afghan peace, in recent months and the
prospects ahead in this connection.
The next piece Gwadar: A Historical Kaleidoscope argues that geo-strategic location has
always rendered Gwadar as an important port
for a long time from ancient period to the
British rule over India.
Nuclear Energy Security: Emerging Trends
and Pakistan contends that prevailing global
nuclear regime is neither fair enough nor
responding to the ground realities of 21st
century, as it tries to keep some countries out
of the ambit of nuclear energy while opens the
floodgates of expertise and technology for
certain others.
The issue concludes with a review of performance of the incumbent government in
Pakistan vis--vis power generation and

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distribution, during first three years of its

tenure, 2013 to 2016.
It is pertinent to mention here that alongside
the printed copies, Policy Perspectives is also
available online to the global audience through
Pluto Journals on JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and
on Factiva and affiliated international databases through Asianet-Pakistan. Moreover, It is
also indexed in International Political Science
Abstracts (IPSA) database through both the
print edition (published by Sage) and on the
Ebsco and Ovid websites.

Policy briefs and reports

The seminar brief 'Developments in
Kashmir: Dynamics and the Way
Forward' detailed a set of recommendations and underlined ways of projecting
Kashmiri's right of self-determination before
the world community in an effective manner.
The brief Termination of Hindu Marriage
on Coversion: A Discussion on Hindu
Marriage Bill 2016 argues that the recent
controversy concerning the under-development Hindu marriage law in Pakistan which deals with the termination of such
marriages upon conversion of one spouse
is based on factual errors and misconceptions and it might further delay the passage
of this much needed legislation.
The report Sustainability of Iran Nuclear
Deal views that it the deal was important
both for Iran and P5+1 but several domestic, regional and global challenges were
there on way. For its part, Iran had complied
with the deal when it rolled back its nuclear
program and now its time for the US to
show its commitment to the deal, which is
important for a stabilizing influence on the
region and also on the world.

Forthcoming
Title:
Mushahidat-e-Zindagi
Author: Fasih Uddin
Binding: HB
Price: PKR500
Category:
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