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Rafiullah Kakar

Rafiullah Kakar is a student of Master of Public Policy (MPP) at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Hailing from Balochistan, he is the Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan for the year 2013.

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PML‑N: A Reluctant Convert to Federalism?

While the ostensibly inexorable slump of Pakistan cricket continues, it has increasingly come to resemble and reflect the broader social…

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Is Peshawar Tragedy Going to Change Anything in Denialistan?

Will this prove to be the turn­ing point in the war against extrem­ism and ter­ror­ism? At least, I am not…

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The Trouble with Our Borders

Just as the inter­nal polit­i­cal cri­sis has begun to sub­side, anoth­er cri­sis in the form of ten­sion along bor­ders has…

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Peace Talks: Who speaks for the Pakistani Pakhtuns?

Criticizing the on-going peace talks with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), leader of the opposition in the Upper House Senator Aitzaz Ahsan…

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Why Balochistan is Burning

It is the least developed and the most impoverished province, where socio-economic realities paint a somber picture.

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Pakistan’s post‑9/11 Afghan policy: A Political Audit

Rafi Ullah Kakar Ten years on, the events of 9/11 and the result­ing ‘War on Ter­ror’ have trans­formed the polit­i­cal…

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Why Quaid-e-Azam Residency?

Rafi­ul­lah Kakar “Quaid we are embar­rassed, those ter­ror­ists are alive,” young pro­test­ers in Lahore chant­ed at a protest demon­stra­tion against…

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Pakistan’s post‑9/11 Afghan policy: A Political Audit

Ten years on, the events of 9/11 and the result­ing ‘War on Ter­ror’ have trans­formed the polit­i­cal land­scape of South Asia…

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Why Balochistan is Burning

Locat­ed at the heart of the world’s oil route and with 750 km of high­ly strate­gic Ara­bi­an Sea coast­line, Balochis­tan…