ASEAN’s Credibility Crisis in Myanmar: Why Business-as-Usual Is No Longer Tenable
More than three years have passed since Myanmar’s military staged a coup, ousting the elected government and plunging the country...
Opinion Article
Bridging the Gap: Aligning Physical and Cybersecurity in a Hybrid Threat Environment
In a world where war is no longer always waged with tanks and missiles, but through malware and misinformation, Pakistan...
Water at the Crossroads: The Potential for Conflict and Cooperation for Iran and Afghanistan
Transboundary water resources have historically served as catalysts for both conflict and cooperation among riparian states. There are at least...
Surveillance vs Privacy Rights: The Battle for Human Dignity in the Digital Sphere.
Beyond governments, surveillance capitalism, a very recent term coined by Shoshana Zuboff in (2019), describes how private tech companies extract...
How How Pakistan’s Strategic Supremacy Outmaneuvered Indian Military Capabilities
Despite the use of every possible instrument of warfare including conventional military capabilities like drones and missiles, weaponizing water and...
Deterrence or Destabilization? Dissecting India’s Ambitions in the Indian Ocean
The tradition of basing one’s nuclear weapons at sea began during the Cold War, when the two Cold War arch-rivals;...
Peace in the Crosshairs: The Need to Renew and Reinvigorate NAP 2.0
The assassination of a senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Maulana Khanzeb, on July 10, 2025, in Bajaur,...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Program and the Ongoing Slander
On June 18, 2025, The Wall Street Journal published Sadanand Dhume’s opinion piece titled, “Iran’s Nuclear Pursuit and the Pakistani...
Strategic Hedging or Strategic Confusion? India’s Rise as a Global Player
The influence of India is growing worldwide, which is quite evident from its multi-alignment moves. Under its G20 presidency, it...
Nuclear Deterrence and the Return of Realpolitik
There are three major events that have significantly altered the course of history in the recent past. First, the two...