Security & Conflict
U.S. Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Policy Implications for China
INF, “the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty”, was initially signed between Russia and USA in 1987. The treaty sought to demolish a whole category of...
Critical Evaluation of Pakistan’s Second Strike Capability
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than...
The unending dilemma of nuclear deterrence and the global nuclear governance
In this essay, I look into the dilemma that sovereign states have when it comes to choosing between their unofficial right to nuclear deterrence...
Can the Taliban tame ETIM?
The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) is also known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organization founded in the...
Russia will not invade Ukraine
Russia has recently increased its military presence on the border with Ukraine, sparking alarmist suggestions by Western officials and think tanks that Russia is...
Islamic State Khorasan’s Threat and the Taliban
As the Islamic State loses territory, it has increasingly turned to Afghanistan as a base for its global caliphate. Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) is...
How India views AUKUS
The inking of the AUKUS, a trilateral security pact among Australia, the UK and the U.S. on September 15, 2021, with an effort to...
AUKUS Deal: A Demoralizing Factor for NPT
In the early days of September 2021, Australia, United Kingdom and United States signed a trilateral agreement which they called as AUKUS pact. Under...
Pakistan Improving Military Capabilities through Multi-National Exercises
A country’s prepared military has always been its guarantor of peace, along with the vigilance, wide-range training and preparedness. Thus preparing the state for...
Features of ISIS’ Information Warfare
The most significant feature of our modern world is the large-scale popularization and application of the Internet, which has transformed our society and formed...