Analysis
Indo-Pak Nuclear Poker
Ever since the Kargil conflict, Pakistan was projected as a state that uses its nuclear capability for coercion and was accused for nuclear blackmail. However, while a lot has been written on the Pulwama crisis, […]
Military
Analysis
Of Ignored Intelligence Warnings and Modi’s Kafkaesque Little War
While there has been a view all along that Pulwama was a false flag operation aimed at achieving Modi’s political objectives, yet many observers thought it might be stretching it too far. The reason for […]
Analysis
Pakistan Navy as an Emerging Deterrent
Naval power is an important political instrument and critical national security ingredient of any maritime state. Historically, seas have played fundamental role in shaping the geopolitcal environment. Themistocles (524-460 BC) once stated, “whosoever can hold […]
Analysis
The Idle at CD
Strategic competition between major powers is a defining factor that shapes global environment. The existing state of arms control is deteriorating because of growing multi-polarity, intensifying strategic rivalries, evolving alliances and competition for strategic dominance. […]
Analysis
Non-Traditional Threats: Peace and Security Dynamics in South Asia
The contemporary milieu, characterized by a changing global strategic environment, interdependence, real-time connectivity and fast-paced technological advancements, has led to a spillover effect that goes far beyond the territory of any single continent. The advent […]
Emerging Technologies
Operation ‘Swift Retort’ and Its Peace Dividends
India and Pakistan have agreed to implement the 2003 ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC). It may be a coincidence that both sides have reached this understanding exactly after two years of ‘Operation […]
Analysis
The Cyber Threat to Strategic Stability in South Asia
In the last decade of the 20th century and with the start of the 21st century we have seen a revolution in the field of information and communication technology. States, non-state actors, and even individuals […]
Military
Indo-French Bonhomie is Destabilizing South Asia
India is rapidly increasing its weapons capability in order to threaten and coerce Pakistan so that latter could submit to India’s hegemonic designs. Such hegemonic aspirations not only threaten South Asia’s regional equilibrium but also […]
Analysis
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Pakistani View
The Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons or TPNW is an outcome of Non-Nuclear Weapon States’ (NNWSs) frustration with lack of progress on Article-6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that obliges the established Nuclear […]
Analysis
Kashmir- A long war on Humanity
India has lost its standing in the world as a secular, pluralistic democratic country. Under the rule of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) a right wing Hindu nationalist party ‘Hindutva’ extremists ideology is now the overarching […]