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, […]
Nuclear
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
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
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
US Nuclear Policy Under Biden: Prospects and Challenges
The US had maintained its leadership role on arms control issues with the help of like-minded countries and allies before President Trump started to unravel some of the key arrangements that were negotiated by the […]
Nuclear
Challenges to the Arms Reduction and Nuclear Disarmament
To live in an anxiety free world and non -violent environment, the utility and use of weapons should be reduced. Arms reduction plays a fundamental role in state security and government’s decision-making regarding political and […]
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 […]