Word from the Author: Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists: The Grand Trunk Road to...
Asma Shakir Khawaja
Whenever any region is decolonized, nations are reborn thereby learning to forget their past and try to buy their already sold integrity and freedom that had been...
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. To combat these threats, states-led...
Pakistan’s Renewed TTP Challenge
Asif Amin
The recent upsurge in terrorism and increased presence of militants in Swat have again gripped Pakistan with dread and fear of a bloody...
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...
Pakistan’s foreign policy towards the Indian Ocean Region
Maria Bastos
The visibility of Pakistan in the Indian Ocean Region has been somewhat enhanced since the launch of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), nearly three years ago. This...
Defeating TTP: An Appraisal of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Operations
Shahzad Akhtar
The insurgency by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan was crushingly defeated by the Pakistani military. The TTP’s stronghold in Bajaur...
Feminism, Foreign policy and Hope
Maria Bastos
The study of foreign policy is currently facing important challenges mostly associated with forecasting the world order. Those challenges imply an imbalance between two nexuses operating at different...
Pakistan-Africa Relations: Appraisal and Future Prospects
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Pakistan-Africa Relations
Pakistan’s relations with many African countries date back to their respective independence movements. Pakistan supported both morally and materially countries such as Algeria, Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe,...
Navigating Pakistan’s Afghan Conundrum
Hassan Tahir
Pakistan-Afghanistan relations have become more challenging, with both countries being at loggerheads over sensitive issues concerning security and sovereignty. Since the...
Pakistan and the International Politics of Labeling the States
Ahmed Waheed
If international narratives on Pakistan were to be believed, then Pakistan is a Weak State, a Failed State, a Garrison State, an Insecure State, a Fragile State, a...
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