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...
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In the age of imperialism, the British colonist took a lot of Indian labour with them to Africa for developing infrastructure and settling the areas under the control...
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Kishwar Munir
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GW in its 5th Stage
Ramiz Ayaz Malik
Causing war is a natural instinct. It is always controlled by society and civilization. Power to rule is what drives this insatiable desire to create warfare. To...
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Najeeb Zaidi
It is trendy to give generational classifications to warfare based on technological changes. However, warfare has always been hybrid and has constantly been shaped by that generation’s technological...
Four Decades of War in Afghanistan
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
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Beating Hybrid Warfare with Ideas
Ahmed Quraishi
Pakistan has faced two powerful wars where traditional and nontraditional methods of warfare were effectively deployed against the Pakistani state: in 1971 and post 2001. Pakistan is a...
Hybrid or No Hybrid, War is War
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Caesar had his legions, Napoleon had his armies. Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery.
Who has not heard of “hybrid war”? Perhaps, someone who has never...
Fifth Generation Warfare and the Challenges for Pakistan
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“For the present, we are at war and do not grasp the dimensions of the conflict.”
Ralph Peters
The term Fifth-Generation War has become a favorite acronym in Pakistan...
Book Review | Universalizing Nuclear Nonproliferation Norms: A Regional Framework for the South Asian...
Author: Adil Sultan
ISBN:978-3-030-01333-2
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan 2019
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The sheer capacity of nuclear weapons to cause colossal destruction has made their proliferation a veritable threat to international security. A set...
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