Pak India Crisis 2019
Indian Border Algorithm
India and China share an almost 2000 km-long border as per Chinese claims and over 4000 km as contended through the Indian narratives. The actual length of the border is 3488 km, which starts at […]
Pakistan
Featured Article
Nuclear Spending ‘Offset’
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) recently issued a report titled “Enough is Enough: Global Nuclear Weapons Spending 2019”. The report questions the annual nuclear spending of US $73 billion by the nine […]
Nuclear
Dangerous Indian Designs 1998 – 2020: Does the Leopard Ever Change Its Spots?
When the first shouted word of Pakistan’s nuclear tests were heard in the Indian Parliament on May 28, 1998, a communist leader, Somnath Chatterjee, interrupted a speech condemning India’s tests and turned directly to Prime […]
Analysis
Nuclearization of South Asia: 22 years
Ever since the nuclearization of South Asia, the dynamics for war and security have changed with a constant threat to regional stability. In 1974, India carried out nuclear tests under the shadow of Peaceful Nuclear […]
Analysis
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: The Guarantors of Peace in the Region
May 28th is a day of pride (Yom-e-Taqbeer) for Pakistan that placed it as a member of an exclusive club of less than ten states. 28 May, 1998 is the day when Pakistan’s nuclear tests readjusted the […]
Economy
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: A Product of Strategic Necessity
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program over the years has been subject to criticism, including safety and security concerns, the myth of the fastest-growing program, or the diversion of resources towards them; it faced all. However, looking […]
Analysis
The Other Side of the Nuclear Coin
The advent of fission in 1938 – a process in which an atom, bombarded with neutron is split into two or more parts with the release of a large amount of energy – gave the […]
Emerging Technologies
Air Launched Ballistic Missile: A Near Term Hypersonic Option for Pakistan
Pakistan’s defence posture is mainly aimed at securing itself against the threats emanating from its arch-rival India. Over the years, it has made efforts to counter these threats by acquiring or developing systems to enhance […]
Emerging Technologies
Stability-Instability Paradox
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a contemporary deterrence strategy in nuclear and non-nuclear technologies is an omnipresent interest to the developing world. The extensive use of AI for military and defence purposes is […]
Economy
IOK Amid COVID-19: An Aggravated Humanitarian Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the already brewing humanitarian crisis in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K). People of Indian occupied Kashmir are already facing the brunt of the extended lockdown and imposed curfew, sanctioned […]