Institute of Regional Studies
- Aarish U. Khan
- Humera Iqbal
- Imran Sardar
- Maryam Mastoor
- Nabila Jaffer
- Shahid Ilyas
- Zunaira Inam
- Ammad Farooq
- Amna Nisar Abbasi
- Reema Shaukat
- Aizah Azam
- Fraz Naqvi
- Talha Tufail Bhatti
- Aleena Shah
- Sandaleen Qaiser
The Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad (ادارہِ علاقائی تحقیق اسلام آباد ، پاکستان) is an independent, non-profit research centre devoted to the study of the region around Pakistan: South Asia, Southwest Asia (Iran, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf), China, and central Asia, as well as the Indian Ocean region. It also studies and analyses policies of major power centers towards South Asia. The institute was set up in November 1981 and founded by Agha Ibrahim Akram. It is considered one of Pakistan's leading think tanks.[1][2]
In May 2022, President Nadeem Riyaz who was the former Ambassador of Rome, was charged and fined for sexual harassment of a Pakistani origin trade officer in Rome, forcing her to return to Pakistan, where he continued to harass her. President of Pakistan Arif Alvi rejected a plea made by Riyaz in August 2023.[3][4]
