Strategic Stability Challenges in South Asia
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Stability is a contested intellectual construct with no consensus on its precise meaning. As noted by Patrick A. McCarthy, “it is overly simplistic and, more than that,...
Pakistan Census 2017: What does the data indicate?
Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
Pakistan held its sixth census in 2017 which put Pakistan’s population at 207.7 million people with an average annual growth rate of 2.4% over a period of...
Full Spectrum Deterrence: Capability and Credibility
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
The enduring enmity, strategic competition, and arms race dynamics have gradually advanced India and Pakistan nuclear arsenals. The former’s sophisticated military hardware shopping spree from militarily technologically...
Book Review: NUCLEAR PAKISTAN Seeking Security and Stability
Edited by: Naeem Salik
Published by: The University of Lahore Press
The nuclearization of South Asia has merited a great deal of scholarship since the past two decades. Academic interests...
The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the future of the International Legal Order
Kamran Adil
While examining the nature of ‘international legal order’, the legal theorists have long been divided over its very existence. In international affairs, it comes under discussion episodically. Recent...
India’s Arihant SSBN: Should China be Worried?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The Sino-Indo rivalry is old and multidimensional. The two nuclear-armed titans have been instrumental in charting out the security architecture of the region. Nuclear deterrence features...
Explaining Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings
Samir Kumar & Hari Prasad
On April 21, 2019, a series of suicide bombings devastated churches and hotels in SriLanka. Multiple sites within three different cities (Batticaloa in the east...
Interview with H.E. Rahim Hayat Qureshi, Ambassador of Pakistan to Republic of Korea
Amb. Rahim Hayat Qureshi is Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea . A career diplomat, Amb.Rahim Hayat Qureshi has served at various important positions in the Foreign Office...
The Geopolitics of Sri Lanka’s Crisis
Kashif Hussain
On October 26, 2018, Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sirisena also dissolved the legislature and called for...
The Quantum Race: Quantum Technologies for National Security
Ji Yeon-jung
Global powers are now shifting their attention to acquire strategic technology for future warfare. The quantum technologies that are critical to securing strategic dominance are opening a new...
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Troubled Path to the NPT RevCon 2020
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The NPT PrepCom 2019 concluded on May 10 after two weeks of deliberations on nonproliferation challenges, aiming to pave the way for the NPT Review...
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The inveterate depredation in Afghanistan has been a costly affair for all stakeholders and those involved in conflict-resolution efforts. The resolution...
Rise of the BJP
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India’s first minister of law and justice, Dr. Ambedkar while talking to the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1949 made these historic remarks: “We...