Pulwama Crisis Redux
Atia Ali Kazmi
“Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It is also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is...
Indian ASAT Capability and its impact on South Asian Strategic Stability
Ahmed Saeed Minhas
The 27th of March 2019, will be remembered as an important day in the proliferation history of the outer space arena. On this fateful day, India tested...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Journey Since 1998: Still Reluctant or Not?
Rizwan Zeb
Forty-seven years ago, in 1972, compelled by worsening threat perception, Pakistan reluctantly embarked upon the nuclear journey when Bhutto ordered his scientists to work on building the nuclear...
India’s Low Nuclear Threshold
Sameer Ali Khan
Revision of the Indian No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons policy has been under significant discussion since 2014 once BJP announced its intent to review and...
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Is India Aspiring to become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds?
Nidaa Shahid
Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Indian Scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the first nuclear detonation by the U.S. in 1945 when he said “Now I am become Death the...
Space Security Trilemma in South Asia
Zulfqar Khan and Ahmad Khan
The peculiar nature of bilateral relations between the United States and China in space is the triggering point of a space security trilemma in South...
Balakot, Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The induction of nuclear weapons in South Asia has given primacy to the concept of deterrence in the strategic discourse between arch-rivals, India and Pakistan. Bilateral...
Lessons of Pulwama
Zamir Akram
The latest Pakistan-India crisis, triggered by the attack on an Indian para-military convoy killing over 40 soldiers on February 14, 2019 in the Pulwama area of Indian Occupied...
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...
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Debating Comprehensive Security in Pakistan
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
Much before becoming the country’s premier, Imran Khan, delivering a keynote address at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, said: “food security...
AMAN-21, Pakistan Navy, and the Narrative of Peace
Shabnam Fazal
With the increasing reliance of countries on Indian Ocean trade routes due to the rising energy needs, non-traditional maritime threats have increased tremendously....
Pakistan’s Continuing FATF Misery
Hassan Aslam Shad
The February FATF Plenary has ended with the expected outcome: Pakistan has done “well” but not “well enough”. In other words, Pakistan...