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During General Election 2013 election campaign for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, I worked on building constituency boundaries maps with a team of GIS volunteers, for National and Provincial assemblies, to do geospatial analysis of previous elections results and gain insights into voting patterns across the country. We were able to do a lot of good work during … Continue reading
This post is part of our look at data on Pakistan. Please read the introduction here for details. The decline of artistic industries in Pakistan is often lamented. Rather quickly, without a closer look, this is often attributed to ‘Talibanisation’ of the country. Below a quick look at the official numbers from the Pakistan Bureau … Continue reading
We have recently interviewed a number of ‘illegal’ migrants from Pakistan to Austria (excerpts are up here and will hopefully soon be out in an English/Urdu version as well). When talking about the trip from Pakistan to Europe, borders played a major role. Crossing from Pakistan into Iran is not an easy task, being shot … Continue reading
Folgende Ausführungen basieren auf Interviews mit pakistanischen Asylwerbern in Österreich (Servitenkloster Wien) und 7 Jahren Arbeit in Pakistan. Es handelt sich dabei nur um eine kurze Zusammenfassung, weitere Details zur derzeit laufenden Forschung in diese Richtung können über die Kontakt Seite erfragt werden. Angesichts der abermals medialen Präsenz pakistanischer Asylwerber in Österreich, folgend ein paar … Continue reading
This article is part of a series of evidence-based analysis of Pakistan’s current political spectrum with the use of statistics, GIS and data visualization. We will further explore the position of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s electoral tsunami in the upcoming general elections 2013 to forecast if it has a realistic chance to win the next elections. Read … Continue reading
This section includes an Introduction into the Series and Annual Data for all Provinces. For Data specifically on Balochistan, KP and FATA (for which we also did a monthly analysis) and Punjab and Sindh please consult the respective posts. You may also want to read on where we see the limits of such an analysis … Continue reading
On RugPundits there have recently been a number of posts on data analysis, mostly with a focus on the upcoming elections with more concerning the War and the Census coming up in the future as well. We are doing so, because we feel there is a lot of unexplored information lying around and these are … Continue reading
This article is part of a series of evidence-based analysis of Pakistan’s current political spectrum with the use of statistics, GIS and data visualization. We will further explore the position of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s electoral ‘tsunami’ in the upcoming general elections 2013 to forecast if it has a realistic chance to win the next elections. Khyber … Continue reading
I have recently written on migration in Pakistan from different angles. The most recent is a book review for DAWN on Fragments of the Afghan Frontier by Hopkins and Marsden and Under the Drones which includes a number of contributions. I explain here, why the latter lacks in what one would expect from the catchy … Continue reading
Gone are the days when a friend visiting from abroad would bring you a nice watch or sweater as a present. Seems like the times are changing as Tahir-ul-Qadiri episode unfolds. The spin-doctor (he loves to call himself a Dr.), a Canadian national for the last five years, has given government an ultimatum until 14th … Continue reading
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