November 2022

Pakistani Provinces Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence

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Image source: Arab News Pakistan, ‘In northwestern Pakistan, domestic violence up by 45% during coronavirus lockdowns’ (ANP, 15 March 2021) accessed August 1, 2022. Introduction It is necessary to institutionalise measures to prevent and protect women, children, and other vulnerable people from domestic violence and matters related to or incidental to such violence. Considering increasing …

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The United Nation’s Involvement in Jammu and Kashmir Dispute

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Image Source: A woman looking out a window in Kashmir. Source: © Scorpionpooja02/Flickr, 2007. Background Under British colonial rule, the South Asian subcontinent was governed in part by directly-administered British territories and in part by Princely States that were quasi-independent.[1] Jammu and Kashmir was one of the largest Princely States,[2] consisting of Hindu maharajah governing …

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The Indus Water Treaty: Trans-Boundary Water Dispute in South Asia

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The Indus River originates in Tibet and Afghanistan and flows through India and Pakistan.[1] British colonial rulers constructed an expansive canal system throughout the watershed that split in the 1947 partition, leaving the headworks in India and majority of canals in Pakistan.[2] This led to upwards of 75 years of water disputes that continue today …

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