Dr Zahir Kazmi

“It is both an honour and a responsibility to visit Azad Jammu & Kashmir, which is the living frontline of deterrence, resilience, and sacrifice. The book “Strategic Reckoning” is also …

In forty-eight hours that mattered, two signals landed against the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) norm. First, at the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, the United States voted against the annual …

Policy pathways for stable deterrence and AI-resilient nuclear command Emerging weapons like hypersonic glide vehicles, loitering nuclear-powered cruise missiles, and AI-assisted command architectures are rewriting the temporal logic of deterrence. …

When the U.S. and India identified underwater domain awareness technologies for cooperation in India in February, few noticed what lay beneath the phrasing: an implicit acknowledgement that India’s next two …

On July 29, India’s government claimed it had eliminated the three alleged perpetrators of the April 22 Pahalgam massacre, an attack that killed 26 tourists, including pilgrims and local Kashmiris. …

The Burden of Strategic Discrimination Few states have been subjected to as persistent and institutionalized a form of nuclear discrimination as Pakistan. Since the 1970s, it has contended with a …

Summary: As South Asia reels from its gravest military crisis in decades, reducing Kashmir to an “unfixable” problem, as argued by Lisa Curtis in Foreign Affairs, is both factually incorrect …