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, […]
Missiles
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
What It Means for Pakistan to Stay on FATF Grey List?
Last week, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to keep Pakistan on its ‘grey list’, with the country’s status set to be reviewed next at an extraordinary plenary session in June 2021. The FATF […]
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 […]
Analysis
Human Rights Violations in Kashmir and the Reaction of Germany
An exceptional record of multi-layered human rights abuses in the Indian occupied parts of Kashmir has become an undeniable reality and an irrefutable truth of the contemporary international system. The presence of Indian security forces […]
Analysis
Space Entanglements: India – Pakistan Rivalry and US-China Security Dilemma
Prof Wesley Hutto, an assistant professor of military and security studies in the Department of International Security at the Air Command and Staff College, Air University, United States, authored a research article on the subject. […]
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
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 […]