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Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) launched its “Charter of Peace” at a well-attended ceremony held on January 16, 2023 at Beach Luxury Hotel in Karachi. Lawmakers, rights activists, academics, journalists, students, and members of political parties, and civil society attended the event besides others. “Charter of Peace (CoP)” is a consensus document that lays … Read more
After a year-long exercise to train university students on interfaith harmony and social peace, Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) selected 50 young observers (students) from across the country to monitor freedom of faith violations and hate speech. A two-day training program was conducted on 9-10 January in Islamabad in this regard. The event was … Read more
Political parties urged to agree on a minimum agenda to bring peace Karachi – The lawmakers belonging to national and provincial assemblies urged that politicians would have to rise above party lines to develop consensus on a certain minimum agenda that can help attain sustainable peace in the country. The legislators gave these views at … Read more
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Islamabad— Experts at a workshop said that dialogue was the only way to resolve different ethnic, religious, and linguistic conflicts within the society, and to bring peace and harmony in the country. They also said that the youth should come out of their different biases that were prevalent in them since childhood and promote logical and … Read more
The Afghans love Pakistan’s national poet Iqbal so much so that one may confuse him for an Afghan due to his Persian poetry that celebrates the majesty of Afghanistan’s mountains, character of its people and nobility of its heroes. In his eulogy of Ahmad Shah Abdali, Iqbal calls Afghanistan “the heart of Asia”, a term … Read more
Afghanistan has endured more than four decades of protracted conflict that entailed foreign invasions, civil wars, and sprees of terrorist violence. There is yet no clue of a certain and secure future for its nearly 40 million inhabitants. The fall of Kabul and departure of former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani were significant happenings of the … Read more
Press Release (January 7, 2023) Outlawed TTP and IS-K remain major actors of violence in Pakistan during 2022 TTP is becoming a major irritant in Pak-Afghan relations 2022 records 27 percent increase in terror attacks from 2021 Islamabad – The proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is becoming a major irritant in Islamabad’s relations with the Taliban government … Read more
Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) launched its “Charter of Peace” at a ceremony held on November 29, 2022 at the Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre in University of Peshawar.The document of Charter of Peace (CoP) has been prepared after holding consultations with multiple stakeholders for countering terrorism and extremism in the country through soft approaches. … Read more
Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) organized a two-day consultation on “Promoting Diversity, and Inclusion through Education” on 1st and 2nd December, 2022 at the Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre in University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Politicians, academics, students, religious scholars, rights activists, journalists, lawyers, provincial government officials, and representatives of youth, and civil society participated … Read more