Research Associate
Socio-Economic Development
Fareed Kakar is a Public Policy Analyst and Narrative Management Strategist serving as a Research Associate at the Center of Excellence for CPEC. Holding an MPhil in Public Policy from NDU and drawing on his background as a former media executive, he analyzes security narratives, trade, investment, and strategic mineral development.
Security
Strategic Narratives
Minerals Development
Strategic Communications
Regional Development
Bilateral Cooperation
On 1 October 1949, a war-weary and largely agrarian nation announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Seventy-seven years later, that same nation is the world’s second-largest economy…
For a decade, the Pakistan-China relationship has been told through the language of connectivity. Highways, power plants, Gwadar’s berths. CPEC gave the two countries a shared project…
The language of Pakistan-China relations has long been poetic, almost liturgical. Diplomats routinely invoke images of a partnership “sweeter than honey…
Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan holds some of the world’s most valuable mineral deposits. The district of Chaghi sits along the Tethyan…
On 1 October 1949, a war-weary and largely agrarian nation announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Seventy-seven years later, that same nation is the world’s second-largest economy…
For a decade, the Pakistan-China relationship has been told through the language of connectivity. Highways, power plants, Gwadar’s berths. CPEC gave the two countries a shared project…
The language of Pakistan-China relations has long been poetic, almost liturgical. Diplomats routinely invoke images of a partnership “sweeter than honey…
Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan holds some of the world’s most valuable mineral deposits. The district of Chaghi sits along the Tethyan…
MS Governance & Public Policy
National Defence University, Islamabad
2023- 2025
BS Media Studies
Bahria University, Islamabad
2017- 2021