Recent Articles
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What Must Our Think Tanks Do?
Think tanks are deemed to play an important role in the process of addressing the multidimensional problems that confront complex societies. In the city of Islamabad alone, there are at least 30 think tanks […]
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Sino-Indian Relations: A Tough Road Ahead
After decades of relative calm, Sino-Indian relations have returned to a bumpy road with a recent bloody brawl between the Chinese and Indian soldiers on the ridges of Galwan Valley in Ladakh, causing fatalities […]
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India and the US-Pakistan F-16 Agreement
In a pre-dawn attack on 26 February 2019, Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) intruded into Pakistani airspace over Azad Kashmir to target an alleged terrorist training camp near Balakot […]
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Beware the Vultures
As the world economy continues to reel from the economic aftershocks of coronavirus (Covid-19), there has been a mounting pressure on countries, particularly in the developing world, to stave off a debt-induced collapse in their fiscal positions. The […]
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India – A Restless Revisionist State
India has once again embroiled itself in a border skirmish with one of its neighbours that has resulted in a serious embarrassment for its military. Its ‘over sold’ narrative of a rising power willing […]
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Ukraine-Pakistan Relations
Pakistan and Ukraine established bilateral relations on 16th March 1992. According to Ukraine’s embassy in Pakistan, the relations are described as ‘dynamic, with collaborations taking place in political, legal, military-technical, economic and humanitarian domains’. […]
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Indo-Nepal Tiff: Why are the Two Brothers Fighting?
India and Nepal have historically close ties and share more political, cultural, and traditional commonalities than any other two South Asian neighbors. The two states also have a 1,800km (1,118-mile) open border, allowing free […]
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The Parallel Universe of Stock Markets
It came as something of a shock that the S&P 500 index, a supposed bellwether of the American economy, attained a level on June 8th 2020 that was so high it effectively erased any […]
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The Cops on the Beat
In America today, there are cops on the beat, and a beat on the cops. A wave of civil unrest has engulfed the United States since the murder of an African-American civilian was broadcast on […]
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The Neglected Kashmir Calls For Attention
The modern-day Kashmir conflict, having roots in the partition of the Indian subcontinent, is the oldest unresolved conflict in the history of United Nations. Nevertheless, apart from being a political impasse between the two […]
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SpaceX Demo-2 Launch: Implications for Roscosmos
The 20th-century race for space dominance that was ignited during the Cold War has been given a renewed competitive push recently. Not only states but private companies are flexing their innovative muscles to make […]
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Coronavirus: Yearning for the cure
As global efforts to discover a vaccine for coronavirus (Covid-19) continue at a feverish pace, much of the public now clutches at the expectation that a cure for the pandemic is on the horizon. […]
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Kashmir: Beyond Imbroglios
Research Article Available on: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JIPA/Display/Article/2211008/kashmir-beyond-imbroglios/utm_campaign/c3d70be820-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_08_05_34/utm_medium/email/utm_term/0_bc3a155b25-c3d70be820-214692973/mc_cid/c3d70be820/mc_eid/399252123d/?utm_source=Journal+of+Indo-Pacific+Affairs+%28JIPA%29 Abstract1 Kashmir is a picturesque region straddled by the boundaries of India, China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It has seen a lot of turmoil in the last 30 years. Moreover, Pakistan and India have […]
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Populism: Effects on Global Politics and Pakistan
Populism is a concept in political science that postulates that the society is divided into two groups that are at odds with each other. According to Cas Mudde who is the author of Populism: […]
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Unfolding the Indian Strategy
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has impacted the decision-making and political processes around the world. However, international pressure has been left wanting on many emergent political and human rights crises, such as that brewing in […]
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Standoff in the Himalayas
The latest military standoff between China and India at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Eastern Ladakh and Sikkim region is one of the most serious military developments between the two Asian […]
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After the Coronavirus Vaccine’s Discovery: Concerns Regarding a COVID-19 Vaccination’s Distribution
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3608750 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3608750 Abstract The fervent global quest for the development of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) begs the frightening questions: who will go first in receiving it? and will everyone get to receive […]
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Coronavirus: Demography and destiny
The adage among demographers has long been that “demography is destiny,” in that what can be observed today about human populations provides rich insight into how they will grow, thrive, or wither in times […]
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Role of Space Technologies in COVID 19 Management
Millions of human beings have been exterminated by different kinds of pandemics since 3000 B.C. For instance, in 1918, the outbreak of viral influenza (a respiratory disease similar to COVID 19) resulted in 50 […]
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How the Indian hardliners benefit Pakistan
The Indian leadership has always been hostile to Pakistan; however, historical events suggest that the hardliners in India, in their fanatical hatred for Muslims in general and Pakistan in particular, have unwittingly aided Pakistan's […]
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The Potentiality of an India-Pakistan Cyber Conflict
The changing financial, social, and political fabric of the world in the wake of COVID-19 has paved way for another intangible entity to unleash in its full fury. While the world grapples with the […]
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India Falters Amidst the Pandemic
The world is battling to find the cure for CoVID-19 and looking to bolster weakening global supply chains which have been severely disrupted by the effects of the pandemic. The global powers are looking […]
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Coronavirus and Cyber Security Challenges
The outbreak of Covid-19 has not only challenged and disrupted the modes of global functioning, but has also provided some state and non-state actors an opportunity to manoeuvre through cyber loopholes to achieve specific […]
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The Plague and its Inquisitors
A common literary motif in Americana, notably in science-fiction narrative, portrays the people of the world putting aside their petty squabbles during a period of world crisis, so that they might unite under the […]
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