Elections 2024: Identifying Key Policy Issues
Ayesha Saddiqua2024-05-06T08:06:57+00:00INTRODUCTION Shafqat initiated the discussion by highlighting that the year 2024 was going to be an election year in South [...]
Book Review by Dr.Saeed Shafqat – Hain Kawakib Kuch
Ayesha Saddiqua2024-04-19T12:01:03+00:00A Trend-Setting Book On Welfare And Political Economy, In Pakistan's National Language "Ahsan Rana has raised a troubling question: [...]
Building Cultural Vibrancy Through Performing Arts
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-07-18T05:19:53+00:00The Centre for public policy and Governance (CPPG), in collaboration with the Punjab Council of the Arts (PUCAR), organized a [...]
Conference on “Ethnic Nationalism and Politicized Religion in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland”
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-05-30T11:55:49+00:00On Monday, 22nd May, 2023, CPPG in collaboration with the Afghanistan Program for Peace and Development (University of Notre Dame), [...]
Book Review: How Have Leaders Impacted The India-Pakistan Rivalry?
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-04-12T05:38:41+00:00Christopher Clary’s The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia has three outstanding features: first, it is theoretically innovative and [...]
The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Masuma Hasan organized an International conference on its 75th Anniversary Conference (14 & 15th December 2022)
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-12-19T08:51:24+00:00The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Masuma Hasan organized an International conference on its [...]
Bureaucracy and Development: Insights and Reflections of a British Civil Servant
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-04-17T06:14:14+00:00Institutions of civil service or public administration have a significant impact on a country’s development. The bureaucracy acts as the [...]
CPPG’s POLICY DIALOGUE for WORLD HABITAT DAY 2022
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-09-30T07:37:35+00:00You are cordially invited to CPPG’s POLICY DIALOGUE for WORLD HABITAT DAY 2022 Pakistan Floods: Managing a Climate [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 11& 13 – 2011
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-09-26T10:39:44+00:00Since 2009 the Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) has held several seminars and policy dialogues on Afghanistan. The Centre [...]
Ambassador of Germany to Pakistan, Mr. Alfred Grannas’ visit to CPPG
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-09-21T07:24:51+00:00On the 19th of September, 2022, His Excellency Mr. Alfred Grannas, Ambassador of Germany to Pakistan visited CPPG with Ms. Dorota [...]
Institutional Development in Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Program
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-03-30T05:30:56+00:00COMPLETED
QUARTERLY Issue 16 &18 – 2012 Special Issue : 5 Years of CPPG
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T09:53:35+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance is five years old and it seems likeyesterday! This is a moment [...]
Electoral Politics and Electoral Violence in 2013 Elections: The Case of Punjab
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-17T05:01:10+00:00The May 2013 Elections are a milestone in Pakistan’s democratic development, with the first democratic transition in the country’s history, [...]
Quarterly: Issue 49 & 52 – 2021
Ayesha Saddiqua2024-04-05T04:39:22+00:00Subject/Topic: Education, Health Policy, Media & ICT, Foreign Affairs, Economic Development, Peace & Conflict Resolution, Democracy & Governance Intro\Abstracts: [...]
Pathways to Governance and Civil Service Reform in Pakistan: Federal, Provincial and Local
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-20T06:37:47+00:00The purpose of this research is to provide a framework for dialogue on the concept of governance and issues of [...]
Pakistan Elections 2018: An Analysis of Trends, Recurring Themes and Possible Political Scenarios
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-16T09:57:40+00:00Politics in Pakistan like many developing societies is confrontational, personalized and acrimonious, yet electoral contestations provides an opportunity for resolving [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 35 & 40 – 2018. Special Issue: 10 Years of CPPG
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T06:01:08+00:00This is a special number of the Quarterly as the CPPG celebrates its tenth year. It combines two years of [...]
Migration, Urbanization and Security: Challenges of Governance and Development in Balochistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-16T10:04:45+00:00This discussion paper focuses on four questions: how do migration and urbanization together transform the socioeconomic and cultural life patterns [...]
“From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Change in Development Paradigm”
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-11-30T07:59:43+00:00The Centre for Public Policy & Governance (CPPG) cordially invites you to a Special Seminar on “From Millennium Development Goals [...]
Pakistan: The Long View, 2047
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-12-19T06:16:11+00:00On 2 December 2016, the Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) in collaboration with the Wilson Chair in Pakistan [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 31 & 34 – 2016
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T06:42:35+00:00With this edition of the Quarterly, I am happy to share that our MPhil program is now in its third [...]
Improving Governance: Reforming Provincial Civil Service in Punjab
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-23T07:13:03+00:00Reforming bureaucracy continues to be a recurring theme for improving governance in Pakistan. However, the focus has remained on the [...]
Recent Events In Pakistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-12-19T09:23:48+00:00from Illinois Public Media: Focus 580
Dr. Saeed Shafqat on Urban Futures Workshop in Bangkok and Lahore 2035
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-27T08:15:06+00:00Social Change and Security Imperatives: Challenges for Leadership and Democratic Governance in Pakistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-30T06:39:05+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG), Forman Christian College organized an international conference in collaboration with the Embassy [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 27 & 30 – 2015
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T08:23:38+00:00Conferences are the lifeline of academia as these promote a culture of research. Conferences also help in building partnerships and [...]
Social Change and Security Imperatives: Challenges for Leadership and Democratic Governance in Pakistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-16T10:19:44+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG), Forman Christian College organized an international conference in collaboration with the Embassy [...]
Senate Elections 2015: An Assessment and the Way Forward (Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy ; CPPG Launches its Policy Brief Series)
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-20T06:44:28+00:00The Senate Elections were held on March 3rd 2015. These were the 12th Senate elections. The first elections of the [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 24 & 26 – 2014
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T08:34:10+00:00For the past few years, CPPG has been actively engaging scholars visiting Pakistan and South Asia. On occasions, we have [...]
State, Democracy, Governance and Leadership
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-12T07:00:45+00:00The Centre for Public Policy & Governance (CPPG) in collaboration with Church World Service-Pakistan/Afghanistan) (CWS-P/A) organized two thematic deliberative sessions [...]
Assessing National Power Policy 2013
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-27T07:24:46+00:00There is growing consensus and realization among scholars, policy makers, energy experts, private entrepreneurs that without harnessing energy crisis, no [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 21&23 – 2013. Special Issue on Energy Crises and Policy
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T08:42:12+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) has been organizing seminars and policy dialogues on the deepening energy crisis in [...]
China’s Rise: How Is It Impacting the Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and Beyond?
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-27T06:39:05+00:00In the past three decades, China’s rise has evoked diverging interpretations of how its ascent as a global superpower is [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 19 & 20 – 2013
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-30T06:09:28+00:00For the past three years at the CPPG, we have been debating to convert the Quarterly into a journal. But we [...]
US Withdrawal from Afghanistan & Pakistan’s Strategy
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-12T07:09:22+00:00The Centre for Public Policy & Governance (CPPG) held a day long policy dialogue titled “US Withdrawal from Afghanistan & [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 14 &15 – 2011
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T10:01:26+00:00This is yet another double issue of the Quarterly. Thus far this has been a very productive and engaging year [...]
Issue 11& 13 – 2011: Special Issue on Pakistan & Afghanistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-26T05:02:49+00:00Since 2009 the Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) has held several seminars and policy dialogues on Afghanistan. The Centre [...]
Saving Pakistan: Devising an Agenda for Counter Terrorism Strategy
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-27T07:59:34+00:00The three recent incidents, namely, Raymond Davis Affair (January 2011), capture of Osama Bin Laden from Abbottabad (May 2nd), and [...]
Pakistan, Afghanistan & US Relations: Implications and Future Directions
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-17T06:00:53+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) was established in July 2007. [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 9 & 10 – 2010
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-24T11:03:42+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) welcomes its second batch of students to the Executive Masters in Public [...]
Issue 7 & 8 -2010
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-26T05:12:22+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) will be completing three years in July 2010. It is still in [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 7 & 8 -2010
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-30T06:12:56+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) will be completing three years in July 2010. It is still in [...]
Training Needs Assessment for Master’s Level Policy Programs
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-17T06:13:06+00:00Research project
Training Needs Assessment for Master’s Level Programs
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-03-30T06:26:13+00:00The objective of this baseline research is to assess degree awarding master’s level Public Policy and Governance programs across the [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 4 – 2009 Special Issue on Population
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-26T06:21:41+00:00Demographic Change particularly shifting Age Structures is pivotal for understanding socio-political aspects influencing growth and development. With 69% of its [...]
QUARTERLY Issue 5 & 6 – 2009
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-26T05:26:22+00:00It gives me pleasure to inform our readers that the Centre for Public Policy and Governance is ready to launch [...]
Pakistani National Identity: Muslim, Multilingual and Multicultural?
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-27T08:02:38+00:00In South Asia, it is religion, more than nationalism that persists as identity maker. Resultantly, nationalist aspirations are couched in [...]
Issue 4 – 2009 Special Issue on Population
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-26T06:55:01+00:00Demographic Change particularly shifting Age Structures is pivotal for understanding socio-political aspects influencing growth and development. With 69% of its [...]
Demography, Security and Governance: Implications and Future Directions for Pakistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-11T06:07:01+00:00: Dr. Saeed Shafqat, Director Centre for Public Policy & Governance gave a presentation on Demography, Security and Governance: Implications and Future Directions for [...]
Population Dynamics and Security: Public Policy Challenges Ninth Annual Research Conference of the Population Association of Pakistan
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-11T06:00:20+00:00: Brief Report on Conference Proceedings The Ninth Annual Research Conference of Population Association of Pakistan (PAP) was held in [...]
QUARTERLY: Issue 02 & 03
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-30T06:15:26+00:00Who decides, who governs, and who rules are questions of crucial signifi- cance for policy analysts. Such questions make one [...]
Social and Political Transformation of Pakistani Political Elites
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-11T06:36:48+00:00Islamic Philosophical Association of Pakistan was established in 1982. Its members comprise of business, industry, banking, education, law, medicine, bureaucracy [...]
Quarterly Issue 01
Ayesha Saddiqua2022-09-21T08:35:53+00:00The Centre for Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) is very pleased to launch its Research and News Quarterly. The CPPG [...]
An Interview with the Rector of FC College Dr. Peter Armacost
Ayesha Saddiqua2023-01-11T06:17:25+00:00: Dr. Peter Armacost, the Rector of FC College gave an extended interview to the CPPG on the 5th of [...]