• Welcome to AIPS

    The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and education organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan.

    It is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, autonomous organization and a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.

    Photo courtesy of Sarah Halvorson

Introduction to Urdu Language & Culture

AIPS will be hosting the 10-week “Introduction to Urdu Language and Culture” online course in 2026 (dates TBD). Enrollment will be open to all interested in exploring Urdu language and culture. To receive information and updates about this course, subscribe to our email list! Please see the AIPS website for more details about the course.  Photo of Badshahi … Read more

2025 AIPS Newsletter

The annual AIPS Newsletter is now available on our website! AIPS was busy this past year. As noted in the Newsletter, we signed 13 MOUs with universities across Pakistan. We also welcomed Dr. Aalia Sohail Khan as the new Director of the AIPS Islamabad Office and hosted our fourth Introduction to Urdu Language & Culture online course.  Members … Read more

CPS Journal Articles

The journal of Critical Pakistan Studies has published several new articles that are available on the Cambridge University Press website: Memorializing the Nation-State: Minar-e-Pakistan between Memory and HistoryHashim Ali Border Bureaucracy and Discourses: Demarcation and Surveillance of the Punjab Border in the Wake of 1947 PartitionIlyas Chattha Seventy-five Years of Partition: Rupture and Connectivity: India-Pakistan … Read more

Member Highlights

Syed Tariq Anwar | West Texas A&M University

Dr. Syed Tariq Anwar’s article on “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Evolutionary Growth and Global Expansion” has been published in the Journal of International Entrepreneurship. The article is about ‘Sialkot’s sports goods industry and its ‘Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’.

Nelofar Khamisani | Kansas State University

Dr. Nelofar Khamisani received an innovation grant from the College of Education, Kansas State University, for her project “Developing Capacity in Biographical Research Methodology.”

Daniel Waqar | Tufts University

Daniel Waqar was recently named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at Tufts University. His research examines the history of British colonial-era unlawful assembly laws in South Asia and their continued use by governments around the world today. The Harry … Read more

SherAli Tareen | Franklin and Marshall College

Dr. SherAli Tareen’s newest book, Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire, has been published in Pakistan with Folio Books. Check it out on their website!