Asima Ashraf

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Mphil scholar at National Defence University, Islamabad

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Growing Strategic Rivalry in the Asia Pacific: Power Struggle of US and China in the South China Sea

For a period US has enjoyed its hegemony in the world in terms of politics, economic and military respectively. There was no other competitor...

Militarization of Indian Ocean and its Implications on Pakistan

“Whoever controls the Indian Ocean, dominates the Asia”-Alfred Thayer Mahan Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean of the world. It is considered as hub...

Relevancy of Russian Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in current NATO-Russian threat environment

Non-strategic nuclear or tactical nuclear (NSNWs) weapons are basically battlefield weapons and used to hit counterforce (Command and control, nuclear facilities etc.) target of...

Is India troubled by vicinity of Iran and China?

China and Iran have been increasing their strategic partnership which may hurt the Indian regional motives in the Asia. India and China have been two...

Entangling between Escalation De-escalation

The US airstrike in Iraq has further fueled the already bloody race of having regional influence between the US and Iran. The Middle East has been...

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