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Testing Deterrence: South Asia’s Strategic Stability After May 2025
The Pakistan-India crisis of May 2025 has once again underscored the fragility of South Asia’s deterrence architecture. What began as a localized confrontation escalated rapidly, demonstrating how misperceptions, doctrinal ambiguities, and conventional imbalances can endanger regional peace. In the aftermath…

India-Pakistan Cyber Skirmishes and the Challenge of Attribution
The recent India-Pakistan crisis in May illustrated how cyber and artificial intelligence are being integrated into military combat in the subcontinent, a significant development for South Asia’s fragile strategic stability.

Pakistan’s New Rocket Force: Strategic Deterrence and Escalation Risks
In the wake of the May 2025 India-Pakistan conflict, Pakistan's assessment of its deterrence requirements has shifted. The formation of a new Pakistan Army Rocket Force Command (PARFC) led by a three-star general reflects this change and aims to provide…

Reducing Doubt and Encouraging Dialogue and Diplomacy in India-Pakistan Ties: A Pakistani Perspective
The Pakistan-India relationship—characterized by mutual distrust, the shared history of Partition, the enduring flashpoint of Kashmir, occasional skirmishes, four major wars, and nuclear weapons—defines the South Asian region. The May 2025 clash represented another instance in which the two countries…

Counterterrorism to Counternarrative?: BLA Designation and the Return of Re-hyphenation in South Asia
Editor's Note: This is the second article in a two-part series on the U.S. designation of the BLA as an FTO. Read the first article here. On August 11, as a part of its “commitment to countering terrorism,” the U.S.…

क्वाड और आतंकवाद-रोध? 2025 शिखर सम्मेलन के लिए अनुचिंतन
इस माह के प्रारम्भ में, क्वाड ने वाशिंगटन में विदेश मंत्रियों की बैठक में आतंकवाद के मसले पर अभूतपूर्व रुख़ अपनाया। संयुक्त वक्तव्य में “सीमा पार आतंकवाद सहित सभी प्रकार के आतंकवाद और हिंसक उग्रवाद” की निंदा की गई तथा…