India’s aggression in Kashmir did not go unnoticed. On the 15th of August, alongside hundreds of protestors, I demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission in London on the constitutional overstep and potential humanitarian genocide. Pakistan […]

Over the past two months developments in Pakistan’s neighbourhood have intensified the security challenges confronting the country. Tensions with India over Kashmir could lead to a conflict between the two nuclear weapon states with devastating […]

The Pulwama crisis that saw the Indian Air Force (IAF) attempting an aerial surgical strike and the response by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in the form of Operation Swift Retort was the first encounter […]

The eighteen-year long war between the US and the Afghan Taliban is expected to reach a conclusion with the peace process in Doha. The US delegation, led by Zalmay Khalilzad, and the Afghan Taliban have […]

Political speeches do not provide solutions to political problems, rather they provide political leaders ample opportunities to set agendas and frame issues of grave concern to peace and development as per their priorities. Speeches help […]

At first glance, it sounds like a great and simple idea. Any nuclear-weapon use would be a catastrophe: it would break the ‘nuclear taboo’ and have, in many scenarios, terrible material, human and even environmental […]

Deterrence stability in South Asia has faced considerable setbacks following recent developments in the South Asian security landscape. The Kashmir dispute has always remained the core bone of contention between Pakistan and India. The Pulwama […]

It is widely known that advancing forward is far easier when swimming with the tide rather than against it – but tell that to a policy planner, and they are likely to argue otherwise. However, […]