In international politics, it’s all about “capability, not the intent.” The more capable a state is, the more belligerent it becomes. Interestingly, this capability (Indian acquisition of an ICBM) is …
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The NPT Review Conference Must Do More Than Bear Witness
by Moneeb Mirby Moneeb MirThe 2026 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens in New York under conditions that would put it under a great test. While there is …
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Kashmir Conflict, State and Societylatest
Operation Sindoor and India’s Civilizational Turn: Strategic Messaging, Ideological Warfare, and Pakistan’s Strategic Gains
by Abdul Basitby Abdul BasitOperation Sindoor manifests more than a conventional military response by New Delhi following the Pahalgam incident on April 22, 2025. The operation reflects a growing metamorphosis in Indian strategic behavior …
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Deterrence through Denial: How Operation Marka-e-Haq Redefined South Asian Strategic Stability
One year has passed since Operation Marka-e-Haq, a watershed moment in South Asian military history that fundamentally altered the regional deterrence paradigm. Launched in May 2025 as a multi-domain response …
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Kashmir Conflict, State and Societylatest
The Pahalgam Incident: India’s Isolation Strategy and Pakistan’s Emergence as a Global Peacekeeper
The Pahalgam incident of April 2025 intensified tensions between two neighboring nuclear countries. It was a deliberate attempt, launched by India, and designed to affect Pakistan’s position internationally, weaken the …
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Emerging Technologies Strategies and Warfarelatest
Denying Coercion, Preserving Control: Bunyanum Marsoos and Pakistan-India Crisis Stability
One year on, the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis deserves to be understood as more than a military episode. It was a compressed, multi-domain confrontation in which political accusation, military mobilisation, …
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Agni-VI: Indian Strategic Thought and Future of International Peace and Stability
Indian DRDO Chairman recently claimed that India is all set to test its nuclear capable CBM Agni-VI with ranges estimated up to 12000 km with capability to carry multiple warheads. …
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Six hours. That is how long it took a pharmaceutical artificial intelligence, flipped from healer to hunter, to design forty thousand chemical weapons. Many were entirely novel. Some were deadlier …
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Arm Control and Disarmamentlatest
Rethinking Equity in the NPT: From Selectivity to Universalism for Strategic Nuclear Stability
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) remains the linchpin of the global nuclear order, embodying a “grand bargain” that trades non-proliferation for disarmament and peaceful nuclear energy access. Yet, entering its …
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Emerging Technologies Strategies and Warfarelatest
Why Pakistan’s Position Will Remain Important beyond This Crisis
by Nimra Javedby Nimra JavedPakistan has emerged as an important diplomatic player in the recent Gulf crisis. With the support of regional states, it is trying to position itself as a bridge between competing …