Pakistan’s Nuclear Journey Since 1998: Still Reluctant or Not?
Rizwan Zeb
Forty-seven years ago, in 1972, compelled by worsening threat perception, Pakistan reluctantly embarked upon the nuclear journey when Bhutto ordered his scientists to work on building the nuclear...
India’s Low Nuclear Threshold
Sameer Ali Khan
Revision of the Indian No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons policy has been under significant discussion since 2014 once BJP announced its intent to review and...
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Is India Aspiring to become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds?
Nidaa Shahid
Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Indian Scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the first nuclear detonation by the U.S. in 1945 when he said “Now I am become Death the...
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...
Balakot, Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The induction of nuclear weapons in South Asia has given primacy to the concept of deterrence in the strategic discourse between arch-rivals, India and Pakistan. Bilateral...
Lessons of Pulwama
Zamir Akram
The latest Pakistan-India crisis, triggered by the attack on an Indian para-military convoy killing over 40 soldiers on February 14, 2019 in the Pulwama area of Indian Occupied...
Pulwama-Balakot Crisis: The Evolving Strategic Discourse in South Asia
Adil Sultan
Pulwama crisis was the most serious military engagement between India and Pakistan since the Kargil conflict of 1999. Despite its relatively short lifecycle, there was a real danger...
Blockchain: Myth Busters for Pakistani Regulators
Najeeb Zaidi
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There is a need to bust the myth and anxiety around the buzz-word ‘Blockchain’. This applies to all and sundry because we are divorcing ourselves from its great...
Qatar Talks Amid Rising Tensions
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
United States’ former Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker has likened Washington’s talks with the Afghan Taliban with those that took place in Vietnam before America’s...
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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...
Lebanon Tech Explosions and Supply-Chain Warfare
Shayan Hassan Jamy
On September 17 and 18, 2024, thousands of pagers, walkie-talkies, and other electronic devices exploded across...
The Canadian Saga and India’s Faulty Terrorism Mantra
Haider Ali
A few days after India's External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, spoke against terrorism and extremism at the...