Pakistan Navy in Ghana: Orchestrating Goodwill Gesture
Ubaid Ahmed
Pakistan’s ‘Look Africa’ policy to extend its impressions in Africa is a marvel step. Pakistan has had profoundly established, memorable and enthusiastic bond with African countries which dates...
Rationalizing Pakistan’s Quest for a Sea-based Deterrent Force
Saima Aman Sial
On 9th January, 2017, Pakistan test fired a sea-variant of Babur cruise missile, with a range of 450 km, from an underwater movable platform. The ISPR Press...
Kissinger in China Preserving his Diplomatic Legacy: A Centennial Milestone
Rabia Akhtar
The historical significance of Henry Kissinger's visit to China and subsequent meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot be overstated. As...
Revisiting Pakistan’s Nuclear Restraint
Mansoor Ahmed
State behavior is largely a product of rational decision-making based on a careful cost-benefit analysis. Countries pursuing crash covert nuclear weapon programs are less likely to remain sensitive...
The Abrogation of Article 370: A Need to Revisit Alistair Lamb’s Analysis of the...
Saba Shahid
India’s recent repeal (5th August 2019) of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution indicates the Modi government’s aggressive stance towards the issue of Kashmir and takes it several...
Deterrence, Compellence and the Cold Start Doctrine
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
Conflict has been one of the most recurrent themes in history. It is apt to assert that war has been an oft-used instrument by actors to...
The Russian Footprint in Afghanistan
Ishaq Ahmed
Russian engagement and involvement in Afghanistan is not a new development. Previously from regime influence to invasion and currently pursuing its regional security objectives, the Russians have always...
Mapping Prospects and Roadblocks in the Afghan Peace Process
Rahimullah Yousafzai
Two positive developments in recent days have raised hopes after weeks of uncertainty that the implementation of the Taliban-U.S. peace deal signed in Doha, Qatar on February 29...
One Door Closes, Another Opens
Pakistan Should Silently Celebrate Trump's Pullout From The Iranian Deal
Andrew Korybko
Trump’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal actually plays to Pakistan’s strategic advantage and should be silently celebrated by...
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...