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The current state of affairs in Kashmir and resulting heightening of India-Pakistan tensions provide daily examples of escalation risks. Since 1998, the low-probability, high-cost risk of escalation across...
Book Review | REIMAGINING PAKISTAN: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Author: Husain Haqqani
ISBN:978-9352777693
Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2018
Saeed Afridi
The premise of Husain Haqqani’s latest book “Re-imagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State” is that Pakistan is an ill-defined, inexactly contrived, economically unviable...
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Jamatul Ahrar and TTP operating against Pakistan from their bases in Afghanistan.
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