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The Islamabad Channel: Mediation and Elite Survival
In the summer of 1971, a Pakistani military plane carried Henry Kissinger on a secret flight to Beijing. The trip helped unlock one of the Cold War’s most consequential diplomatic openings and briefly made Pakistan indispensable to global strategy. Islamabad…
One Year After Pahalgam: Competing Narratives and Converging Risks
May 7 through 10 marked the one-year anniversary of one of the most intense crises in decades between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed neighbors that share a long and heavily militarized border and together hold at risk nearly 1.7 billion…
SAV Q&A with TCA Raghavan: One Year After the May 2025 Crisis
On May 4, South Asian Voices spoke with Ambassador TCA Raghavan about the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis and the path forward for the relationship. Ambassador Raghavan is a former Indian diplomat who served as the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan…
Between Islamabad and Kabul: How Far Can Mediators Go?
When kinetic conflict once again flared up between Pakistan and Afghanistan in late February 2026, China was one of the few third parties to offer its good offices to mediate in a region caught in the fallout of the U.S.-Israel-Iran…
SAV Q&A with Fahd Humayun: Pakistan and the “Islamabad Process”
On April 16, South Asian Voices spoke with Dr. Fahd Humayun about Pakistan's role as mediator and the prospects for the Pakistan-led peace process.
Pakistan-Afghanistan Tensions: An Open War in a Regional Crisis
In late February, following terrorist attacks on mosques in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) attributed to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistan launched airstrikes on the border provinces of Afghanistan targeting TTP and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) camps. In response,…