An academic magazine comprising original research, and summary of talks & activities at the CPPG http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/368 2026-06-23T20:34:11Z 2026-06-23T20:34:11Z Shafqat, Dr. Saeed Saddiqua, Ayesha http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2816 2025-11-05T07:15:49Z 2025-06-17T00:00:00Z

Title: Quarterly Authors: Shafqat, Dr. Saeed; Saddiqua, Ayesha Abstract: Inaugural Remarks The Conference explored the deeply interwoven historical, political, and human dimensions of bilateral relations, with a specific focus on Pakistan's evolving refugee repatriation policy. The conversation highlighted how recent developments, especially the repatriation drive initiated in 2023, sit at the intersection of past grievances, current insecurities, and a shrinking space for empathy and inclusion. Scholars and practitioners from both countries offered a multi-perspective analysis that ranged from geopolitical critique to cultural reflection, from field-based insights to normative proposals for rebuilding trust and cooperation. Description: Special Isuue

2025-06-17T00:00:00Z Shafqat, Dr. Saeed Haque, Raheem ul Azim, Dr. Syed Wasif Abbas, Neesa http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2815 2025-11-05T06:23:43Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Quarterly Research and News CPPG (Vol. 55; no. 2) Authors: Shafqat, Dr. Saeed; Haque, Raheem ul; Azim, Dr. Syed Wasif; Abbas, Neesa Abstract: The Centre of Public Policy and Governance (CPPG) was established in 2007 under the direction of the visionary and transformative Rector Dr.Peter Armacost. In 2025, it has completed seventeen years of its existence. In these seventeen years CPPG has made significant accomplishments in research, teaching, training, and advocacy in the areas of governance, civil service reforms, demography, urban policy, citizens engagement, youth, electoral democracy, energy, and conflict resolution and peacebuilding including China-US rivalry, to mention a few.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Shafqat, Dr. Saeed Haque, Raheem ul Azim, Dr. Syed Wasif Abbas, Neesa http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2812 2025-11-05T04:48:16Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Volume 55 Number 1 Authors: Shafqat, Dr. Saeed; Haque, Raheem ul; Azim, Dr. Syed Wasif; Abbas, Neesa Description: The first issue of the Quarterly Research & News was launched in April 2008, thus it has just completed fifteen years. With the blessings and support of Dr. Peter Armacost, Rector (2004-2012) Quarterly was designed with considerable thinking and planning to be the repository of institutional memory, reporting the activities of CPPG and encouraging the research publications of faculty, students and outside scholars. It was conceived to be heavy on the reporting of diverse views of the speakers, thus breaking disciplinary boundaries and encouraging deliberation on issues and policies from a multidisciplinary perspective. At the time of its inception our expectation was that we would publish four issues a year. But, by the end of the year, we realized that it was an expectation based on naivety and beyond our existing faculty capacity. So, we amended and tried publishing Quarterly bi-annually and were considerably successful. However, until 2016, it remained a duo team—me and Raheem ul Haque. Through dedication and determination, Quarterly’s reporting, synergizing quality and content improved. We were also successful in soliciting articles, getting them peer reviewed and adding book reviews while sustaining its publication. In 2016, the Quarterly got a real boost as Ms. Saba Shahid joined the team, and thus by 2021 the quality, content and regularity of Quarterly’s publication became routinized. Unfortunately, in late 2019 the menace of COVID 19, its spread and continuing lingering effects disrupted the publication momentum. In 2021, we decided to handover publication of the Quarterly to students on experimental basis but that did not prove fortuitous. Therefore, we have decided to rejuvenate and restore the original design and spirit of the Quarterly—to sustain it as a repository of institutional memory and a platform for students’ and faculty’s innovative, trend setting ideas/reflections and research. The faculty and the editorial team have resolved to make it a bi-annual publication from 2024, to be published in July and January. Meanwhile, after almost fifteen months of discussion and deliberation among the faculty, we are ready with a new issue of the Quarterly, which reflects the CPPG activities and provides a sample of student’s research over the past few years. As always, we welcome critical appreciation, comments and feedback. Dr. Saeed Shafqat

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Shafqat, Dr. Saeed Haque, Raheem ul Nadeem, Hurmat http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2811 2025-11-04T07:46:11Z 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Volume 54 Number 2 Authors: Shafqat, Dr. Saeed; Haque, Raheem ul; Nadeem, Hurmat Description: The first issue of the Quarterly Research & News was launched in April 2008, thus it has just completed fifteen years. With the blessings and support of Dr. Peter Armacost, Rector (2004-2012) Quarterly was designed with considerable thinking and planning to be the repository of institutional memory, reporting the activities of CPPG and encouraging the research publications of faculty, students and outside scholars. It was conceived to be heavy on the reporting of diverse views of the speakers, thus breaking disciplinary boundaries and encouraging deliberation on issues and policies from a multidisciplinary perspective. At the time of its inception our expectation was that we would publish four issues a year. But, by the end of the year, we realized that it was an expectation based on naivety and beyond our existing faculty capacity. So, we amended and tried publishing Quarterly bi-annually and were considerably successful. However, until 2016, it remained a duo team—me and Raheem ul Haque. Through dedication and determination, Quarterly’s reporting, synergizing quality and content improved. We were also successful in soliciting articles, getting them peer reviewed and adding book reviews while sustaining its publication. In 2016, the Quarterly got a real boost as Ms. Saba Shahid joined the team, and thus by 2021 the quality, content and regularity of Quarterly’s publication became routinized. Unfortunately, in late 2019 the menace of COVID 19, its spread and continuing lingering effects disrupted the publication momentum. In 2021, we decided to handover publication of the Quarterly to students on experimental basis but that did not prove fortuitous. Therefore, we have decided to rejuvenate and restore the original design and spirit of the Quarterly—to sustain it as a repository of institutional memory and a platform for students’ and faculty’s innovative, trend setting ideas/reflections and research. The faculty and the editorial team have resolved to make it a bi-annual publication from 2024, to be published in July and January. Meanwhile, after almost fifteen months of discussion and deliberation among the faculty, we are ready with a new issue of the Quarterly, which reflects the CPPG activities and provides a sample of student’s research over the past few years. As always, we welcome critical appreciation, comments and feedback. Dr. Saeed Shafqat

2024-07-01T00:00:00Z