Unfurling Black Flags: ISIS and the Divide over Islam in Kashmir
As the “deadliest year in a decade” was coming to an end for Kashmir, on December 28th a group of youngsters with their faces covered […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: A Precarious Year for Afghanistan
The United Nations Strategic Review of 2017 reclassified Afghanistan from a post-conflict state to an active conflict state. As we enter 2019, the conflict not […]
سال ۲۰۱۹ کی جانب : نئے پاکستان کیلئے ایک کٹھن راستہ
پاکستان کے ۲۲ویں وزیراعظم عمران خان کے انتخاب کے ساتھ سال ۲۰۱۸ پاکستان کے لئے نتیجہ خیز ثابت ہوا۔ پاکستان تحریک انصاف (پی ٹی آئی) […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: The Great Indian Balancing Act
Whether one lauds or condemns the specifics of India’s foreign policy orientation under the premiership of Narendra Modi, one can hardly ignore his efforts to […]
Looking Ahead to 2019: A Tumultuous Road to Naya Pakistan
With the election of the country’s 22nd prime minster, Imran Khan, 2018 proved to be a consequential year for Pakistan. It was the first national […]
Contesting Authority: Female Participation in Pakistan’s Islamist Parties
Despite a new law stipulating that all political parties must give five percent of their tickets to women, Pakistan did not see meaningful female participation […]
Pakistan’s Full-Spectrum Deterrence: Trends and Trajectories
Twenty years ago, the government of Pakistan decided to respond in kind to India’s nuclear tests in May 1998. Pakistan conducted six nuclear explosions to […]
The Politics of Opportunism in Kashmir
Kashmir’s political scene has been active since the alliance between People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke down and Governor’s Rule was instituted […]
Pakistan’s Consolidating Conventional Deterrence: An Assessment
Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. […]
Strategic Pivoting: How Superpowers Galvanize the Indo-Pak Arms Race
South Asia has evoked the attention, intervention, and strategic embrace of powerful international actors over the course of many decades. By virtue of their involvement, […]