Madiha Afzal

Madiha Afzal is an assistant professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Articles by Madiha Afzal
Pakistani students shout slogans against the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 25, 2016. Pakistan has pledged further action to combat militants, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted progress had often been slow, speaking just days after a deadly attack by heavily armed gunmen on a university campus killed 21 people. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED / AFP / A Majeed (Photo credit should read A MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani students shout slogans against the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on January 25, 2016. Pakistan has pledged further action to combat militants, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted progress had often been slow, speaking just days after a deadly attack by heavily armed gunmen on a university campus killed 21 people. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED / AFP / A Majeed (Photo credit should read A MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)

Identity Goes Beyond Islam in Pakistan
The South Asia Channel
Madiha Afzal
An activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Q holds oil lamps during a vigil for the victims of an attack by gunmen on a Shiite Ismaili minority bus, in Karachi on May 15, 2015. The United States offered to help Pakistan investigate a deadly Karachi bus attack which left 44 Shiite Ismailis dead, in the first assault in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
An activist of Pakistan Muslim League-Q holds oil lamps during a vigil for the victims of an attack by gunmen on a Shiite Ismaili minority bus, in Karachi on May 15, 2015. The United States offered to help Pakistan investigate a deadly Karachi bus attack which left 44 Shiite Ismailis dead, in the first assault in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO/ Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Violence, Pakistan’s New Normal
The South Asia Channel
Madiha Afzal
Pakistani Hindu women dance as they cele
Pakistani Hindu women dance as they cele

Pakistan’s Identity Problem
The South Asia Channel
Madiha Afzal
FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/GettyImages
FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/GettyImages

Pakistan’s squandered chance at education reform
The South Asia Channel
Madiha Afzal
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