Agni-V: A Weapon of Instability
Tanzeela Khalil
Agni V is India’s longest range, 5000 km, solid fuel propelled Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) which has been regularly tested every year since 2012. The only year it...
Mapping Pakistan’s Strategic Challenges and Options
Mansoor Ahmed
Pakistan is sometimes referred to as a ‘crisis state,’ which has been beset with unrelenting challenges, but has largely been resilient and has succeeded in navigating through them....
Pakistan, GSP+, and the International Criminal Court
Ayesha Malik
Pakistan’s next tranche of GSP+, which allows for tariff-free trade to the European Union(EU), will now reportedly be contingent on its ratification...
Looking into Africa’s Future: Opportunities, Challenges and The Way Forward
Abdulhamid Mpoza
Africa is a naturally gifted continent with huge untapped resources, something that might have been one of the reasons for its colonization between 1870s and 1900s by European...
Russo-Pakistan Relations Post-Pulwama
Andrew Korybko
The Valdai Club, Russia’s most prestigious think tank, published a thought-provoking and visionary piece on Russian-Pakistani relations in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack and the latest round...
The Inevitability of the Emerging Nuclear Tetraplex
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The architecture is currently grappling with a range of multifaceted challenges due to the intricate strategic chain connecting several key countries....
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...
Unpacking the Afghan Conundrum
Sabtain Ahmed Dar
After spending around $1 trillion in Afghanistan, the United States is leaving that country without achieving the political and security...
US-Iran Conflict: The War Saudis Need but Don’t Want
Ahmed Quraishi
On the morning of May 16th, the world woke up to a Saudi newspaper editorial calling for a “calculated surgical airstrike” against Iran.
The Arab News editorial was blunt....
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...
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