Pulwama-Balakot Crisis: The Evolving Strategic Discourse in South Asia
Adil Sultan
Pulwama crisis was the most serious military engagement between India and Pakistan since the Kargil conflict of 1999. Despite its relatively short lifecycle, there was a real danger...
Blockchain: Myth Busters for Pakistani Regulators
Najeeb Zaidi
Background
There is a need to bust the myth and anxiety around the buzz-word ‘Blockchain’. This applies to all and sundry because we are divorcing ourselves from its great...
Qatar Talks Amid Rising Tensions
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
United States’ former Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker has likened Washington’s talks with the Afghan Taliban with those that took place in Vietnam before America’s...
Rebranding Nuclear Disarmament: Assessing Role and Impact of The Nuclear Ban Treat
Sitara Noor
International efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament are as old as the nuclear weapons development. The United Nations General Assembly’s first resolution in 1946 established a commission to...
Trumpting the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Salma Malik
Afghanistan once again lives up to its part-legend part-mythical reputation of unceremoniously ousting foreign invaders. Whether it was the documenting of the fatal siege of Kabul Residency that...
The Widening Gulf: Why Taliban Do Not Want to Talk with the Afghan Government?
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
The year 2019 is being considered important in the Afghan peace process and US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is primarily because of constant rounds of talks between...
Between Islam and Ethics: Deterrence Makes the Scare Go
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
“We will not hesitate to use any weapon in our arsenal as our security is more dear to us than the advice of international leaders which...
A Page from History : Ode to Badaber
Now that the time has come to bury Badaber, it is ironically fitting that no effort to reconstruct its life can be made at Rawalpindi. Its early days are...
Military Technologies, Fifth Generation Warfare and Policy Implications for Pakistan
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...
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...
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Afghanistan: The Next Theatre in the U.S.-Iran Conflict
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Since the momentous events of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ties between Iran and the U.S. have followed a predictable pattern,...
Sunderji Syndrome: Understanding India’s Conventional Military Modernization
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“Dreams of ‘disarming first strikes’ leading to the temptation to ‘go first’ and the consequent instability of Small Nuclear Power equations are...
Pakistan’s Mediation Challenge in the Middle East
Aisha Saeed
The current turmoil in the Middle East predates the recent developments in the region. Home to several Arab countries that are closely knit...