Pakistan

Religious scholars to launch a comprehensive programme to promote peace and religious harmony

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Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) and a team of prominent religious scholars (Ulama), representing all Islamic sects in Pakistan will launch a comprehensive programme to promote peace and religious harmony in the society. Starting from August 2011, the programme will include a range of activities in three main categories of intellectual and academic discourse, … Read more

Religious scholars agree to strive for peaceful and tolerant society

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Prominent religious scholars, representing various schools of thought, pledged to strive for a peaceful and tolerant society in Pakistan. They emphasized that differences of opinion should not be used as a channel to engender hatred and hostilities among the people. They agreed that discouraging all sorts of violent tendencies in society was a collective responsibility. … Read more

Raising awareness on Kashmir conflict and exploring opportunities for peace building

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Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) in collaboration with the Islamic Relief Pakistan (IRP), organized a two day training workshop entitled “Raising Awareness on Kashmir Conflict and Exploring Opportunities for Peace Building,” on 29-30 March 2011. The participants and panelists noted that being a flashpoint between two nuclear rivals of South Asian region finding a … Read more

PIPS researcher attended CGCC regional working group meeting at Bangkok.

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Abdul Basit, a researcher at PIPS, attended a regional workshop organized by Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation on ‘preventing abuse of the non-profit sector for the purposes of terrorist financing’ held at Bangkok, Thailand from 21-23 March 2011. He represented Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) sector of Pakistan in the meeting. The workshop was attended by NPO … Read more

Understanding North Punjab in the context of Pakistani diaspora in Britain

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A census report by the Institute for Public Policy Research in London counted that 7.53 percent of Britain’s population in 2001 was born overseas.2 Among the top non-UK birthplaces of Britain’s population, Pakistan was ranked third after Republic of Ireland and India.3 British Pakistanis mainly hail from three parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir: Mirpur, … Read more