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Signed but Undefined: Contextualizing the Pak-Saudi Mutual Defense Agreement
After decades of partnership, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have officially signed a “strategic mutual defense agreement.” The joint statement, issued on September 17, identified “shared strategic interests,” among other factors, as providing the impetus for the agreement, which aims to…
Atoms for Partners?
SAV recently published a piece by Hely Desai on India's development of small modular reactors and its implications for New Delhi's nuclear energy and economic goals. In this analysis, Brigadier (Retd). Zahir Kazmi responds with some of the concerns that…
Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack
The recent terror attack in Pahalgam, which targeted unarmed civilians and killed 26 people, marks a dangerous escalation between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan. The Resistance Force, a group widely believed to be associated with Pakistan-based and United Nations-designated terror…
Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses
As its first response to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, initially claimed by an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security issued a list of diplomatic, political, and non-military directives vis-à-vis…
The Fragility of Stability: India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs in the Shadow of Pahalgam
The ensuing India-Pakistan crisis in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack has once again put the fragile architecture of regional stability under stress. The sweeping retaliatory measures by both India and Pakistan have resulted in an unprecedented suspension of the…
ٹرمپ مودی ملاقات: تصفیہ طلب مسائل موجود مگر ارادے پھر بھی بلند
امریکی صدر ڈونالڈ ٹرمپ کی غیر متواتر دوسری مدّت (ٹرم)کے لئے حلف اٹھانے کے تین ہفتوں کے اندر ہی بھارتی وزیر اعظم نریندر مودی کو سرکاری ورکنگ وزٹ کے لئے وائٹ ہاؤس مدعو کیا گیا ۔ یہ متوقع دورہ امریکی…