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The West is apprehensive about the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s expansion into a formidable regional organization in Eurasia,...
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Conflict has been one of the most recurrent themes in history. It is apt to assert that war has been an oft-used instrument by actors to...
Space Security Trilemma in South Asia
Zulfqar Khan and Ahmad Khan
The peculiar nature of bilateral relations between the United States and China in space is the triggering point of a space security trilemma in South...
Internalizing Blue Growth Initiatives in Pakistan
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Blue Economy is a globally-nascent concept. Although the idea of Blue Economic growth is being discussed internationally for the past several...
Full Spectrum Deterrence: Capability and Credibility
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The enduring enmity, strategic competition, and arms race dynamics have gradually advanced India and Pakistan nuclear arsenals. The former’s sophisticated military hardware shopping spree from militarily technologically...
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Terrorism over the Internet
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“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will move the world.”
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The Youth Development Index in South Asia: A Human Security Risk
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“When you make a peaceful revolution impossible, you are making a violent revolution inevitable.” J F Kennedy
Last I approached the red zone of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad, a...
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