Recent Articles
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Policy Perspectives on Pakistan’s Population Explosion
Pakistan is grappling with a plethora of socioeconomic challenges. While the country is consistently making progress in resolving many such issues, some areas still suffer from policymaker’s apathy and require due attention. Population explosion […]
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Indian Military Modernisation: Response Options for Pakistan Air Force
As a result of developments in advanced technology, rigorous training and the role of leadership at the operational level of war, airpower has now reached a point where it has become truly strategic in […]
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Squeezing the Salaried Class
Pakistan’s salaried class serves the role of a steadied backbone in our otherwise rough-and-tumble economic life. Their salaries are subject to taxation that offers the slimmest modicum of tax effort in a country with […]
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COVID-19 Lessons from our Neighbor
In the past two weeks, we have witnessed heartbreaking images which depict the horrible state of COVID-19 in neighboring India. The ongoing pandemic has taken an extremely dangerous form there and it is a […]
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Pakistan-Turkey Strategic Partnership
Alliances and partnerships have always been a core element of states’ strategies both during conflict and for cooperation. As the world order, marked by US hegemony, is being challenged with ever-increasing globalization and renewed […]
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Pakistan and India Rapprochement
News reports about backdoor contacts between Pakistan and India have recently emerged and the flexibility in statements by the government officials of the two states also suggest the same. According to media,United Arab Emirates […]
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Inequality & Insecurity: An Unorthodox Correlation
Among the many economic challenges that Pakistan faces, the issue of inequality often gets neglected and is seldom discussed. With the publications of the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Pakistan National Human Development Report […]
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Is Pakistan’s Cyber Security Strong Enough to Protect the Country?
The authors highlight the vulnerabilities within Pakistan's cyber-security system. There are cyber laws in place by the government, however, they do not adequately understand the growing sophistication of cyber-attacks. With the growth and spread of […]
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Indo-US Strategic Partnership: Pakistan’s Security Dilemma
Pakistan and India were part of opposing camps during the Cold War. While Pakistan was closely aligned with the US, India chose to side with the Soviet Union. However, following the demise of the […]
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Turkey and the S-400 Crisis
Failing to secure a deal with the United States (US) and other NATO countries for an air defense system, Turkey turned to Russia for the S-400 air defense system. In 2017, Turkey signed a […]
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Quetta Attack: Lessons for Pakistan
Pakistan witnessed a very significant decline in acts of terrorism over the past few years. Reduction in terrorism-related violence was mainly attributable to decisions by the political leadership, public support and efforts as well […]
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The Funeral Pyres
The funeral pyres are burning brightly across India these days, as 3 lakh daily cases and nearly 3000 daily coronavirus deaths are being reported in the official statistics. Given that there is persistent under-reporting […]
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Russian Foreign Minister’s Pakistan Visit: Revamping Lost Ties
It is once again proven that there is no permanent ally or enemy in the global political order, rather only permanent interests. Despite the repeated attempts of warming up bilateral ties in the past, […]
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The Ghost of Afghanistan Past: A Challenge for the Biden Administration
Following signing of a peace agreement between the US government and Afghan Taliban on February 29, 2020, which established a timetable for withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in May 2021, the new Biden […]
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Pakistan-India Peace Initiative
An agreement between the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan marked the beginning of yet another round of peace talks between the two countries after a long gap. The statements made […]
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Rise of Religious Parties: Blind Love or Hybrid War?
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is considered to be the most precious part of human nature. For most Muslims around the […]
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Food Insecurity: A Threat to National Security
Pakistan is grappling with a plethora of socioeconomic, development, and agricultural challenges. Among them, the country’s inability to adequately feed all of its population—a problem known as food insecurity—dominates the list and requires urgent […]
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Economic Security in a World Context
“Apart from winning the war, there is no task facing society today so important as the elimination of economic insecurity,” wrote the famed economist Abba Lerner in 1943, as ideas of how to grapple […]
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Economic Corridors like CPEC: A Vital Element of National Security
Economic Corridors like CPEC: A Vital Element of National Security Connectivity is vital for generating revenue and prosperity not just for a single state but the region as a whole. Connectivity opens new doors of […]
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The Role of Nuclear Deterrence in a Changing Security Environment
In world politics, a new era has begun due to global power shifts. This, at least, is the presumption that has emerged in the United States’ discourse over the last few years and was […]
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Pakistan’s Vulnerability to Climate Change: Need for Collective Action and Responsibility
Climate change has emerged as one of the major threats of the 21st Century. It's impacts are already being widely observed in different regions of the world. These include melting glaciers, rising sea levels, […]
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How US Navy Exposed the Limits of Indo-US Strategic Cooperation
A seemingly small but significant incident has served a timely warning to the United States that it should neither over-estimate Indian security commitment against China nor neglect the ultimate and longstanding Indian ambition of […]
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Economic Security within National Security
The first Islamabad Security Dialogue (ISD) was conducted in mid-March 2021 with the aim of drawing upon national and international thought-leaders to discuss how Pakistan’s national security calculus should more accurately reflect the nation’s […]
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Security Narratives in the Age of Globalization
In many nations, the narratives around the notion of “national security” have evolved over a passage of time in many countries. Although early scholars of warfare such as Sun Tzu did highlight the importance […]
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