China: The Next Global Mediator?
Nidaa Shahid
A week after being re-elected as the President of China, Xi Jinping, in a historic move, stepped in to play the role...
Nuclear Responsibilities and Pakistan: Understanding Sensibilities for Future Engagement
Ali Mustafa
The BASIC-ICCS Nuclear Responsibilities Approach and Toolkit provides a new way to tackle the challenges posed by nuclear weapons in the modern era. It offers a...
The Responsibility of Making the Global Nuclear Order More Secure: Thinking Beyond Conventional Risk...
Muhammad Shareh Qazi
Risk Reduction is defined in many ways, depending on how and in which context is being implemented. But a general consensus...
Gilgit-Baltistan and the Geopolitics of the Third Pole
Kashif Hussain
The vast glaciers of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Pamirs, spreading across the highlands of Central and South Asia, are considered...
Internalizing Blue Growth Initiatives in Pakistan
Rutt Syed
Blue Economy is a globally-nascent concept. Although the idea of Blue Economic growth is being discussed internationally for the past several...
Pak-U.S. Relations: From Security Alliances to Development Partnerships
Aneel Salman
U.S.-Pakistan relations have remained checkered. Despite being one of the first diplomatic relationships established by Pakistan, these ties have not evolved from...
Recalibrating Pakistan’s Lawfare for Kashmir
Ayesha Malik
If Ukraine’s lawfare moves after Russia’s invasion have taught us anything, it is that Pakistan’s response to India’s occupation and annexation of...
Pakistan’s Renewed TTP Challenge
Asif Amin
The recent upsurge in terrorism and increased presence of militants in Swat have again gripped Pakistan with dread and fear of a bloody...
Pakistan-China Cooperation and India’s Strategic Anxiety
Rabia Akhtar
The issue of strategic stability in South Asia is a trilemma between Pakistan, India, and China, not just a dilemma between India...
Of FATF and Pak-U.S. Relations
Claude Rakisits
Quite surprisingly, the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision on October 21, to remove Pakistan from its “grey list” went almost unnoticed...