Spoilers in Pakistan-Iran Relations
Hamzah Rifaat Hussain
More than a dozen personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were recently kidnapped in a pre-dawn raid along the Pakistan-Iran border. With the Balochistan province to...
Deterrence Stability in South Asia: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Amina Afzal
India and Pakistan’s seaward nuclearization has received great scholarly attention off late. The thrust of recent literature on the issue focuses on whether an at-sea deterrent has bolstered...
Strategic Stalemate in Afghanistan
Jaweria Waheed
Seventeen years of war in Afghanistan have resulted in a strategic stalemate plagued with a stalled peace process. Afghanistan is strategically important and is a fulcrum of power...
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...
Hybrid Warfare: Shielding Stratagem
Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Global politics is fluid and dynamic.Nations are combating identical and contrasting traditional and non-traditional security challenges. Security analysts are calling a mix of these challenges as Hybrid Warfare....
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...
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Reality of Peace Support Operations.
Zeeshan Shahid Khan
Where the money flows, the story goes!
Pakistan has always been on the forefront of providing support to the international community in maintaining peace. Apart from being one...
Is Pakistan Ready for the Nuclear Suppliers Group?
Sameer Ali Khan
The discussions over extension of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership to non-NPT Nuclear Weapon States (NWSs) tend to overly focus on differing perspectives on the criteria. This...
Iran in the Age of Multipolarity
Saeed Afridi
It can be argued that the demise of the US’ unipolar moment lay in the hastily ill-conceived ‘War on Terror’ in the wake of the World Trade Centre...
The Bullying Swagger
Cheryl Rofer
Before Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo posted his Instagram account featuring “swagger,” he had repeated the word several times. The first Instagram photo is a mock seal for...