Hot Takes: Pakistan’s MIRV-capable Ababeel Missile
Pakistan’s Ababeel: Neither a Surprise, Nor a Threat By Rabia Akhtar This week, Pakistan successfully conducted the first ever test of its new medium-range, surface-to-surface […]
Rabia Akhtar
Rabia Akhtar is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research, University of Lahore. She holds a PhD in Security Studies from Kansas State University. Her research focused on U.S. non-proliferation policy towards Pakistan and foreign policy analysis of executive-legislative interactions in U.S. foreign policy making and related issues in congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy towards Pakistan from Ford to Clinton. She is a Fulbright Scholar (2010-2015). Her co-authored research monograph on “Nuclear Learning in South Asia” was published in Jan 2015 by the Regional Center of Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Articles by Rabia Akhtar
Uri: What Next?
It is day 89 of unrest in Kashmir. But no one is talking about thousands of pellet-ridden faces and bodies of men, women, and children […]
SAV Review Series: Assessing the Impact of China’s MIRVs on South Asia
Review of “China’s Belated Embrace of MIRVs” by Jeffrey G. Lewis in The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear […]
US-Pakistan: The Hijab of Expectations
United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue The United States-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, an annual bilateral discussion on matters of security and economic importance, kicks off on Monday. As […]
Deterrence by Design: Sino-Pak Strategic Cooperation in Gwadar
F.S. Aijazuddin in his excellent book on Pakistan’s role in 1971 U.S.- Chinese rapprochement wrote that “Pakistanis love China for what it can do for […]
Let It Spin: The Iranian Nuclear Deal and Its Implications for U.S. Non-proliferation Policy
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a political framework agreement that has been reached between Iran and six major powers including the five […]
Pakistan, India, and China after the U.S. Drawdown from Afghanistan: A Visiting Fellow Report
South Asian Voices, a project of the Stimson Center, is a website featuring commentary and debate from a generation of rising strategic analysts in India […]
CIA’s Drones Warfare And The Human Story
If one looks at the total number of drone strikes resulting in casualties inside Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) from 2004 until 2014, they […]
TTP and Their Dreams
I never thought that my posts for this blog would be anything other than strategic in the context of doctrinal assessments and analysis. But at […]
Dr. Strangelove and 16 years of South Asian Nuclearization
I was recently a participant at an International Nuclear History Boot Camp at Allumiere, Italy organized by the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project at The […]