Zubair Qureshi
The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services has been ranked among the top institutes in Parliamentary Research amongst global mapping of research services around the world by the UK Parliament.
According to latest issue of The Parliamentarian, the journal of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, UK Parliamentary Office of Science of Technology undertook a comprehensive year-long exercise to place the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) in the top tier of only 41 out of 181 parliamentary institutions worldwide in 125 countries, providing evidence-based policy synthesis, analysis and scrutiny as per the international standards to the parliamentarians.
Dr Vicky Ward at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and Dr Mark Monaghan from University of Loughborough University in England, undertook a detailed comparative analysis of purpose, structure and performance over the five years (2018-2023) for 181 institutes to map 41 top institutes worldwide placed.
“The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS), alongside network-oriented models such as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Services (CPRS) and UK-Post are placed among well-known models for linking individual Parliaments with academic research.
PIPS has been recognized as the global centre of excellence based on ensuring five qualitative standards of “impartial, balanced, credible, reliable and timely research services,” to individual members and parliamentary institutions in last five years. Research evidence has an important role to play in the work of parliaments as they scrutinize.
