Madiha Afzal is a nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development program and in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Her research lies at the intersection of development, security, and political economy, with a focus on Pakistan. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of Global Policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She previously worked as an assistant professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Afzal is the author of the new book Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State, published by the Brookings Institution Press in January 2018 (the book was also published in South Asia and Afghanistan by Penguin India in March 2018). Afzal has published in Public Choice, and is the author of a USIP special report on Education and Attitudes in Pakistan, as well as several book chapters. Afzal writes regularly for Pakistani and international publications. She also consults for the World Bank, and has been a consultant for DFID and IFPRI. For her writing on education in Pakistan, she was named to Lo Spazio della Politica's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2008, specializing in Development Economics and Political Economy.
Madiha Afzal is a nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development program and in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Her research lies at the intersection of development, security, and political economy, with a focus on Pakistan. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of Global Policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She previously worked as an assistant professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Afzal is the author of the new book Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State, published by the Brookings Institution Press in January 2018 (the book was also published in South Asia and Afghanistan by Penguin India in March 2018). Afzal has published in Public Choice, and is the author of a USIP special report on Education and Attitudes in Pakistan, as well as several book chapters. Afzal writes regularly for Pakistani and international publications. She also consults for the World Bank, and has been a consultant for DFID and IFPRI. For her writing on education in Pakistan, she was named to Lo Spazio della Politica’s list of Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2008, specializing in Development Economics and Political Economy.
89 percent of Pakistanis in a recent Pew global opinion poll said that violence against civilians in the name of Islam was never justified.
The fact that [Lashkar-e-Taiba], under a charitable and political front, is able to conduct operations freely in the heart of Punjab lends credibility to the idea that at least important elements within Pakistan’s security forces do support and back the group.
The children of the elite play in heavily guarded, expensive indoor play areas. As terrorism rose in Pakistan over the last decade, security has become a commodity that only the rich can afford.
