Team

Muhammad Amir Rana is a founder member of Pak Institute for Peace Studies. He has worked extensively on issues related to counter-terrorism, counter-extremism, and internal and regional security and politics. He also writes regularly for Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English newspaper.

Najam U Din is a lawyer and a former journalist. He has an LLM in international human rights law, with a particular focus on forced displacement. Najam is a former director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Safdar Hussain is a research analyst at Pak Institute for Peace Studies. His work focuses on conflict, insecurity, and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and regional political, strategic and security issues.

Hazrat Bilal looks after IT and technical planning, logistics, and implementation for PIPS projects. He also supervises the organization’s digital database on ‘Conflict & Security’.