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The extensive disinformation campaign, revealed by EU DisinfoLab's Indian Chronicles, has posed a challenge to the international community. It now has to work towards creating more binding arrangements to...
Great Power Competition in South Asia: The Outlook for 2021
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The journalist Fareed Zakaria recently described the coronavirus as “the great accelerator” because it had sped up various pre-existing global trends. This formula certainly applies to South Asia,...
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Media was rife with reports last week about the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopting a Pakistan-sponsored resolution on the peoples’ right of self-determination titled “Universal realization...
Of Internal Reforms and External Connectivity:Strengthening Economic Security in Pakistan.
Javed Hassan
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Hangor Day: A Glorious Reminiscence
Hassan Zaib
After gaining independence, Pakistan realized that, in order to endure and safeguard . freedom, it ought to attain a strategic wherewithal to thwart malicious designs of its enemy....
Kashmir is Firmly on OIC and Global Agenda
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India’s Strategic Paralysis & Counterforce Temptations
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From Conflict to Peace: Recalibrating Pak-Afghan Relations
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Recently, it was announced that, Pakistan's Prime Minister, Imran Khan, will visit Kabul later this month. This would be PM Khan's first official visit to Afghanistan...
Book Review | Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Book Title: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Author: Francis J. Gavin
ISBN: 978-0-8157-3791-9
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2020
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
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