Pakistan’s Afghan Quagmire Post Khan-Trump Summit
Rahimullah Yusufzai
While talking to the media after his recent meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Prime Minister Imran Khan cautiously said Pakistan would urge the Taliban...
Pakistan’s Modi Dilemma
Rifaat Hussain
By winning a clear majority in the Indian general elections held last month, the NDA coalition led by Bhartia Janta Party (BJP) under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has...
Troubled Path to the NPT RevCon 2020
Sitara Noor
The NPT PrepCom 2019 concluded on May 10 after two weeks of deliberations on nonproliferation challenges, aiming to pave the way for the NPT Review Conference (RevCon) in 2020. The...
The Taliban and Afghanistan’s Gordian Knot
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
The inveterate depredation in Afghanistan has been a costly affair for all stakeholders and those involved in conflict-resolution efforts. The resolution of the decades-long Afghan quagmire...
Rise of the BJP
Arshad Mahmood
India’s first minister of law and justice, Dr. Ambedkar while talking to the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1949 made these historic remarks: “We must make our political democracy...
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...
Way Forward for Tehran and Washington
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
U.S. President Donald Trump is challenged by two somewhat concomitant foreign policy challenges posed by North Korea and Iran. One cannot help but draw parallels between...
Pushing the Limits: Iran, the U.S. and the JCPOA
Cheryl Rofer
In May 2018, Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israeli intelligence had stolen an archive of material on nuclear weapon research from Iran. Since then the Israelis have turned...
Iran-US Standoff: Time for Stakeholders to Show Statesmanship
Asif Durrani
After U.S. announcement of ending exemptions for Iranian oil exports to eight countries last month, the situation in the Middle East has plunged into gross uncertainty. There have...
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...