Security & Conflict
India’s Hegemonic Design for Indian Ocean Region
“Whoever controls the Indian Ocean has India at his mercy. India cannot exist, without the Indian Ocean being free. The Indian Ocean, therefore, remains...
Stateless and Leftover ISIS Brides
While the World is busy fighting the pandemic and the economic devastation caused by it, one of the important problem that has been pushed...
How far Pakistan has succeeded to counter India through second strike capability?
South Asia has long remained a nuclear flash point. China, India and Pakistan, all three armed nuclear states, craft a triangular dilemma. Nevertheless, the modernization...
Central Asian Jihadists’ Use of Cryptocurrencies in Bitcoin
On August 13, 2020, the US Justice Department announced that it seized $2 million in Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrency from accounts of...
The Afghan intelligence services
Still today the Afghan Intelligence Services’ ability to collect information is definitively scarce. This is mainly due to the limited specific training of staff...
Indian Force Modernization: A Threat to Strategic Stability in South Asia
Hans J Morgenthau in his classical work of Politics Among Nations stated that the aspiration for power on part of several nations, each trying...
The Role Of Pakistan’s Naval Strategy In Balancing The Strategic Paradigm Of The Region
The recent turn of events regarding Pakistan’s maritime ambitions and development programmes, can be seen as an attempt to maximize power. This power politics...
Cybersecurity and NATO’s Nuclear Capability
In July 2020, Chatham House released the “Ensuring Cyber Resilience in NATO’s Command, Control and Communication Systems” information and analytical report. It covers a...
The Role Of PLA In Chinese National Security & Policy Making Process
Although the Chinese notion on the emergence of China as a global power is quite liberal in perspective, as they believe in a peaceful...
The way in which the Chinese intelligence services operate
Since the time of Empress Wu Chao, who created the first Chinese intelligence service in 625 A.D., much has changed, but we could also...