Benefits and Challenges of Nuclear Information-Sharing in South Asia
In our essay entitled “Charting Nuclear Security Progress in South Asia,” we explored whether voluntary declarations on civilian plutonium under the existing INFCIRC/549 Guidelines on […]
Russia-Pakistan Strategic Convergence: Countering Daesh in Afghanistan
Daesh’s transnational threat of establishing an Islamic State spanning the Middle East and Africa all the way to Southeast Asia has drawn unlikely regional partners […]
The Subcontinental – Podcast Short – January 2018 Visiting Fellowship
The Subcontinental is a South Asian Voices (SAV) podcast on strategic issues in South Asia. SAV is an online policy platform featuring emerging South Asian analysts. It aims to foster free-flowing, […]
India-China Economic Relations: An Assessment
The year 2017 was a grim one for India-China ties. The Doklam standoff, Beijing’s repeated move to block India’s request for the declaration of Jaish-e-Mohammed […]
Moving Beyond Doklam in India-China Relations
The narrative of what went down in the Himalayan frontier region in the summer of 2017 has come under scrutiny once again ahead of a […]
नेपाल और भारत की नई दोस्ती: बराबरी पर आधारित
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CPEC Today: The Dragon’s Soft Paw
China’s decision to transform the small fishing town of Gwadar, Pakistan, into one of the critical infrastructure links in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) […]
Sri Lanka Under the Nuclear Shadow
While many are familiar with the impact of nuclearization of relations between India and Pakistan, there is less familiarity with its impact on South Asia’s […]
The Political Awakening of Pakistan’s Pashtuns
There is a storm brewing in Pakistan: after decades of exclusion and discrimination, the Pashtun community from the country’s tribal areas has come forward to […]
India’s Reservations About Voluntary Reporting of Civilian Plutonium Stocks
The canvas of global nuclear issues is immense, encompassing three parallel and significant subsets: deterrence, nonproliferation, and nuclear security. However, in the last year or […]
2018 Elections: Why Pakistan’s Struggle with Democracy Will Continue
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) surprising victory in the recent by-election that took place earlier this month in Punjab–for a National Assembly seat the Pakistan […]
Short Take: Another Hot Summer to Burden Kashmir
Projecting Kashmir as a “peaceful” destination for tourists, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-led state government hosted the 64th annual Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) […]
Afghan Peace Talks: Political Maneuvering and Regional Response
After the recent wave of violence in the country, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s offer for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban at the second meeting […]
SAV Review: Advancing Without Attacking in India-Pakistan Conflict Dynamics
In a recent article, “Advancing without Attacking: The Strategic Game around the Use of Force,” Dan Altman presents a new framework to study how states […]
کلبھوشن جادھیو معاملہ اپنی نوعیت کا آخری واقعہ کیوں نہیں ہے؟
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Why Foreign Policy is Not An Election Issue in Pakistan
With general elections in Pakistan scheduled to take place this summer, all major political parties have already begun campaigning and articulating their agendas. While domestic problems, such […]
Pakistan and the Islamic Military Coalition: Need to Balance Interests
The ambitious Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, has undertaken an effort to lead the Muslim world in the fight against the spread of […]
بھارت کا قابلِ اعتماد جوہری ڈیٹرنس اورکشیدگی کنٹرول میں اس کی مرکزیت
بھارت کا پاکستان کو ٹیکٹیکل ہتھیاروں کے استعمال میں پہل کی صلاحیت پر جوہری ردِعمل سے روکنے کی بحث آج بھی جاری ہے۔ نئی دہلی […]
CPEC Today: Regional Integration or Estrangement?
Since the unveiling of the blueprint for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in 2013, the ambitious program has been described as a holistic initiative that […]
तापी गैस पाइपलाइन: प्रगति और चुनौतियाँ
फरवरी के अंत में तुर्कमेनिस्तान-अफगानिस्तान-पाकिस्तान-भारत (तापी) गैस पाइपलाइन के अफगानिस्तान हिस्से के हेरात में उद्घाटन के साथ उम्मीद है कि यह परियोजना अगले कुछ सालों में […]
سی-پیک منصوبہ :چین کا نرم خُو تشخص
چین کا پاکستان کے چھوٹے فشنگ ٹاؤن (مچھلیوں کے شکار کے شہر) گوادر میں اپنے بیلٹ اینڈ روڈ انیشیٹو (بی-آر-آئی) کےلئے غیر معمولی ترقی دینے […]
Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium: India’s Case
Since India and Pakistan became nuclear-armed powers in 1998, the contentious and escalatory dynamics between these two rivals have been a point of concern not […]
The Cold Start Doctrine and India’s Compellence Woes
Yet again, South Asia watchers are concerned about the growing conflagration between India and Pakistan, as evidenced by constant ceasefire violations along the Line of […]
Pakistan’s Naval Nuclear Ambitions: Concerns and Challenges
On March 29, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed in a press release that Pakistan had conducted another test of the Babur-3 nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise […]
Making India’s Nuclear Deterrence Credible: The Centrality of Escalation Control and Dominance
The debate on the nuclear threat that India poses to deter Pakistan’s first use of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) is ongoing. Traditionalists in New Delhi […]
Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Balance between Pakistan and India?
The bonhomie between India and Saudi Arabia over the last few years, on display most recently during Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj’s visit to Riyadh […]
CPEC Today: China’s $62 Billion Gamble
Ever since its formal launch in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)—a massive transport corridor project that comprises part of Beijing’s broader Belt and […]
جان بولٹن کی تقرری کے افغانستان اور پاکستان پر کیا اثرات مرتب ہوں گے؟
اگر صدر ٹرمپ کی طرف سے مائیک پومپیو اور جینا ہاسپل کی بالترتیب سٹیٹ ڈیپارٹمنٹ اور سی-آئی-اے میں بطورسربراہ تعیناتی اشارہ دینے کےلئے ناکافی ہے […]
Shades of Grey: Pakistan’s Impending FATF Listing
Come June, Pakistan will once again be put on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-list, which consists of countries suspected of financing, or allowing […]
Short Take: What Does Bolton’s Appointment Mean for Afghanistan and Pakistan?
If President Trump’s appointments of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel, to head the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) respectively, aren’t enough of an […]
India’s Backyard Problem: A Permanent Headache
The Maldives’ former president and now exiled leader, Mohammad Nasheed, talking to The Wire recently, emphatically said, “India should be more engaged. It is India’s […]
Indo-Pak Nuclear Dynamics: Why Cold War Lessons May Not Apply
The Cold War saw a series of serious efforts towards nuclear arms control. Cold War rivals—the Soviet Union and the United States—conceived the principles of […]
The On Again-Off Again Alliance
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua’s recent visit to Washington came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and Pakistan, in the aftermath […]
Where Will the TAPI Gas Pipeline Go From Here?
With the inauguration of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline’s Afghan section at the end of February in Herat, there is much hope that this project […]
داعش بمقابلہ طالبان: افغانستان میں تزویراتی محاذ آرائی
شہری و سکیورٹی فورسز کی ہلاکتوں میں اضافے نے ۲۰۱۷ میں افغانستان کی پرتشدد فضاء کو نیا رخ دیا ہے۔کابل میں یکے بعد دیگرے ہونے […]
A Nepal-India Reset in Kathmandu’s Favor?
Last week marked Prime Minister K.P. Oli’s first visit abroad since assuming office in February and his destination was Nepal’s southern neighbor, India. As bilateral […]
سی-پیک علاقائی تعاون کا باعث بنے گا یا کشیدگی کا؟
۲۰۱۳ میں سی-پیک منصوبے کے سامنے آنے کے بعد سے اسے ایک ایسے منصوبے کے طور پر بیان کیا گیا جو پاکستان کی سماجی و […]
پاکستان کی ایف-اے-ٹی-ایف فہرست میں متوقع شمولیت
جون میں ایک مرتبہ پھر پاکستان کو فائنینشل ایکشن ٹاسک فورس (ایف-اے-ٹی-ایف) کی گرے لسٹ میں شامل کر لیا جائے گا ۔اس فہرست میں وہ […]
After the Kabul Process: Three Options for the Taliban
Amid continuing violence in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani laid out a path for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban during the second meeting of the […]
कश्मीर में एक और हिंसक गर्मी
कश्मीर को पर्यटकों के लिए “शांतिपूर्ण” दर्शाते हुए, पीपुल्स डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी (पीडीपी) सरकार ने इस मार्च श्रीनगर में ट्रैवल एजेंट्स एसोसिएशन ऑफ इंडिया के ६४ […]
War in Peacetime: Need for a Renewed Indo-Pak Ceasefire Agreement
One indicator of the state of relations between India and Pakistan is the degree of peace or violence along the Line of Control (LoC) and […]
SAV Review: Evaluating the Normative Utility of the NWPT in South Asia
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, through its Doomsday Clock—the metaphorical clock whose hour hand is set to midnight, representing nuclear armageddon—has assessed the current […]
Can CPEC be a Boon for Central Asia?
Posited by many as Beijing’s bid to shape the world order for its own economic and strategic interests, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims […]
Beijing as a Peace Broker in Afghanistan: Motivations and Constraints
In recent years, Beijing has focused on stabilizing Afghanistan through diplomatic engagement, engaging in four-nation talks to chart a course for resolving the conflict and […]
Voluntary Information Sharing on Civilian Plutonium: A Perspective from Pakistan
In its broadest sense, transparency refers to disclosing information that was earlier kept classified. In practice, transparency regarding the management of nuclear materials varies for […]
Four Reasons Why PML-N is the Front Runner in Pakistan’s Upcoming Polls
When Nawaz Sharif was re-elected prime minister in 2013, Pakistan was considerably different from his previous term in 1999. Major challenges to the country included […]