The last seventeen years of Afghan history have only witnessed inconsequential and trivial progress towards peace in Afghanistan. Hollow promises and ill-conceived rigid positions have often made progress in the peace process slow, if not […]

The 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is deliberating the technical, political and legal aspects for admitting India and Pakistan into its folds. India, which has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) – a prerequisite […]

Since the end of Cold War and the obsolescence of the bipolar world order, global politics took a new and unprecedented turn. Realists in international relations thought surmised that because maintaining balance in a multi-polar […]

According to the Climate Risk Index for 2018 published by the German Watch Think Tank, Pakistan ranks as the world’s 7th country most vulnerable to climate change. This risk index analyzed the total damage caused […]

Pakistan’s scarcity issue is not only attributed to the shortage of water resources. On the contrary, it is the division and utilization of these very resources that must be rethought to prevent future disasters. Building […]

The Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – commonly known as the Iran deal, met in Vienna on June 28, 2019 to discuss the implications of the U.S. sanctions and Iran’s […]

Located in the Pacific Ocean, south of China, east of Vietnam, west of Philippines and home to presumably large oil reserves and natural resources., South China Sea holds the prominence in international politics, which is […]

The CTBT is a binding, yet not an in effect treaty, formulated in 1996. It imposes a moratorium on all nuclear testing for either military or civilian motives. The treaty has not entered into force […]