China-Pakistan Nuclear Energy Cooperation: History and Key Debates
Pakistan’s looming economic crisis has only been worsened by an energy shortfall. Due to a lack of capacity in Pakistan’s electrical grid and the inefficient […]
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Ten Years of the Indo-U.S. Civilian Nuclear Agreement: Implications for Pakistan
The Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement of 2008 marked a turning point in the history of relationship between India and the United States, the two largest […]
بھارت کے ساتھ تعلقات کی بہتری: پاکستان کی معاشی ترقی کےلئے ناگزیر
۲۵ جولائی کو انتخابات میں کامیابی کے بعد تقریر میں وزیراعظم عمران خان نے بھارت کے ساتھ تعلقات میں بہتری، تجارتی راستے کھولنے اور کشمیر […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prospects for Civilian Plutonium Management in Pakistan and South Asia
Over the past three decades, the progressive accretion of nonproliferation agreements has led to greater transparency on nuclear materials worldwide. This has enabled the introduction […]
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 […]
India’s Underappreciated Realpolitik: Navigating the Geopolitical Spectrum
Historically, India’s approach to the global order has been grounded in the principles of pragmatism and realpolitik—a fact that has often been under appreciated by […]