http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1167
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of warfare by unmanned aerial vehicles and whether such weapons can be as effective as traditional counterinsurgency strategies and tactics. From the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College
A country economic memorandum and 16 supporting policy notes for improving Pakistan’s economy. From the World Bank
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR332-Empowering-the-Pakistan-Police.pdf
How to make the police force more effective in countering violent extremism. Derived from interviews with Pakistani police officials. From the United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR327-Pakistan-and-the-Narratives-of-Extremism.pdf
Focuses on the inroads extremist narratives have made in Pakistani society and the importance of countering those narratives to prevent exttremists from destabilizing the country. From the United States Institute of Peace
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R40439.pdf
Describes which agency in each of the nine nuclear club nations is responsible for research and development of nuclear weapons, whether these agencies are military or civilian, and the evolution of this agency in the U.S. from 1942 to date. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34248.pdf
Discusses the size of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and the problems related to security and proliferation.
From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR321.pdf
Reports on the recent Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict in a previously relatively peaceful mountainous region of Pakistan and offers ideas for how to reduce the strife. From the United States Institute of Peace
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/RP12-76.pdf
Includes a survey of the electoral landscape in 2013, an assessment of the current government, relations between Pakistan and other countries, and assistance provided by other countries. Also provides experts’ views of possible futures for Pakistan. From the House of Commons Library