Spoilers

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

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...
Stalemate

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...
Sea-based

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

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

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...
Peace Support

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...
NSG

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...
Multipolarity

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...
Swagger

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...

Latest article

AM-350S: Advancing Pakistan’s Air Defense and Strategic Independence

Awais Raoof Pakistan's unveiling of the AM-350S long-range 3D air surveillance radar at the IDEAS 2024 defense exhibition marks...

Trump 2.0: A New Chapter or the Same Old Story for Palestine?

Jalal Ud Din Kakar Republican candidate Donald. J. Trump’s stunning victory in the recent U.S. presidential election marks an...

Himalayan Harmony: The Evolving Geopolitics of the Sino-Indo Border

Joshua Bowes In the shared Himalayan border region between China and India, change is coming. After six decades of...
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