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...
Harnessing the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Tiger
Saba Shahid
It has already been established that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) offers Pakistan an opportunity for both economic and human development. However, we need to go beyond the...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests: Twenty Years On
Salman Bashir
Pakistan’s nuclear tests on 28 and 30 May 1998 marked a watershed in the nation’s quest for security. The devices tested conformed to weapon configuration capable of delivery....
Sunderji Syndrome: Understanding India’s Conventional Military Modernization
Muhammad Sharreh Qazi
“Dreams of ‘disarming first strikes’ leading to the temptation to ‘go first’ and the consequent instability of Small Nuclear Power equations are think-tank myths”
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Fake News and Political Rhetoric: The Foreign Policy Challenge
Zainab Dar
The rise of post truth politics, wherein, the politicians rely on using rhetoric to win the elections and influence public opinion has become a prominent feature of politics...
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...
Israeli-Gulf Rapprochement: Strategic Implications for Pakistan
Rabia Akhtar
In 1958, Pakistan leased the Badaber base near Peshawar to the U.S. for ten years. The base was to be used as a U.S. communications facility and for...
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...
Modernizing Chinese Finance
Shahid Javed Burki
Having worked as the Director of World Bank’s China Operations for seven and a half years, I developed an appreciation of how the Chinese leadership takes major...
Orphans and Castaways – Legacy of the U.S. Exodus from Afghanistan
Salma Malik
As the eventual date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is now just around the corner, the reality that this...
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The recent upsurge in terrorism and increased presence of militants in Swat have again gripped Pakistan with dread...