NSP: A Giant Step Towards Pakistan’s Progress and Stability
Shahid Alvi
Pakistan’s National Security Policy (NSP) was made public by the government on January 14, 2022 and its public version consists of 48...
The Bullying Swagger
Cheryl Rofer
Before Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo posted his Instagram account featuring “swagger,” he had repeated the word several times. The first Instagram photo is a mock seal for...
Letters to Uncle Sam: Manto on Pak-US Relations
Rizwan Zeb
Should literature be taken seriously by political scientists and historians? Is there any link between literature and political developments? Can literature be more helpful in understanding political developments...
Interview with Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Ambassador of Pakistan to Thailand
Amb. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad is Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand. A career diplomat, Amb. Asim Iftikhar has served at various important positions in the Foreign Office, Pakistan’s...
Securitization of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A Necessary Approach?
Aisha Saeed
With the advent of the 21st century, geostrategic positioning of a country has regained its relevance in the national policy making. The post Cold War environment defused and...
CPEC’s Threat Matrix
Kishwar Munir
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is fast being recognized as the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The multi-billion dollars project has now become...
Resetting Pakistan-Iran Relations
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
One of the biggest foreign policy challenges for Prime Minister Imran Khan since his assumption of power last August has been Pakistan’s Middle East policy. The...
Strategic Overview of the Nuclear Pakistan
Mansoor Ahmed & Maimuna Ashraf
India and Pakistan completed 20 years of overt nuclearization last year. During these two decades, Pakistan achieved several milestones required to qualify as a modern...
The Kashmir Catastrophe
Brian Cloughley
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the U.S. President Donald Trump have much in common, not least, the extensive use of Twitter to communicate their thoughts, policies and...
The Pitfalls of the Indo-U.S. Embrace
Anum A. Khan
The June 15, 2020 clash between India and China is fittingly in-line with a famous saying, “Imprudence is a moral failing of sorts, but alas it ranks...
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Agni-Prime: Read P for Pakistan
The successful test launch of India's 'Agni Prime', a new-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile, marks a significant advancement in...
Mapping the Challenges to Pakistan’s Geoeconomic Pivot
Afeera Firdous
In January 2022, Pakistan's National Security Division (NSD) launched the country’s first-ever National Security Policy (NSP), marking...
Navigating Pakistan’s Security Challenges Through Emerging Technologies
Bilal Ghazanfar
Recent trends indicate that the nature and conduct of war are transmuting as emerging technologies (ETs) have...