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Pakistan’s Internal Securitisation is the Real Crisis
Muneer Ahmed. · 29 Aug, 2025 · #5894 · Commentary
For generations, Pakistanis have lived with security shaping many aspects of daily life. Now, as internal pressures mount, the grip of securitisation may tighten even more. Pakistan being increasingly governed by the dynamics of internal securitisati ...
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Strategic Space
Nuclear Brinkmanship at a New Brink
Manpreet Sethi. · 22 Aug, 2025 · #5893 · Commentary
The world commemorated 80 years of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this August. Across the world, editorials, opinion pieces, activist marches, discussions and other events marked the occasion. On 9 August 2025, as people remembered the ...
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Pakistan Elections: An Explainer
Muneer Ahmed. · 15 Feb, 2024 · #5869 · Commentary
None of the three main political parties in Pakistan were able to secure a majority in parliament following the 8 February election. Of the 266 contestable National Assembly (NA) seats, independent candidates backed by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e ...
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Tiers of Motivation: Bilateral and Regional Drivers of the Iran-Pakistan Missile Strikes
Muneer Ahmed. · 30 Jan, 2024 · #5868 · Commentary
On 16 January, Iran launched highly
coordinated precision strikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan, while Pakistan retaliated on 18
January, after protesting diplomatically. These strikes were conducted across Goldsmid
line, which demarcates Pakistan†...
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Strategic Space
25 Years of Nuclear India and Pakistan: Crisis Communications Must be Made a Priority
Manpreet Sethi. · 25 May, 2023 · #5849 · Commentary
In May 1998, two
countries, India and Pakistan, emerged as states with nuclear weapons. They
also happened to be neighbours with disputed territorial claims. International
reactions not only criticised and imposed sanctions on both, but also expre ...
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Book Review
A Practitioner’s Expert View of India’s Relationship with Pakistan
Rana Banerji. · 25 Aug, 2022 · #5826 · Commentary
It
is heartening to see Indian career diplomats of recent vintage penning their
understanding of the complex India-Pakistan relationship. Soon after The People Next Door (Harper Collins, 2017) by T.C.A. Raghavan, India’s high
commissioner in Isl ...
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Special Commentary
Pakistan: Whither ‘Hybrid’ Governance?
Rana Banerji. · 24 Apr, 2022 · #5813 · Commentary
Even
by Pakistan’s unpredictable standards, the tumultuous events of the past few
weeks, beginning with the tabling of a vote of no confidence against a sitting prime
minister on 8 March, bewildered the nation and shocked the sensible sections o ...
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Strategic Space
From Bangladesh to Balakot: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on India-Pakistan Dynamics
Manpreet Sethi. · 14 Dec, 2021 · #5799 · Commentary
Swarnim Vijay Varsh was celebrated throughout 2021 to mark 50 years of India’s
victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war. The three services commemorated their
successes: the Indian Air Force’s achievement of complete air superiority, its extens ...
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Strategic Space
Nuclear Deterrence and Stability in South Asia: The Inadequacies of a Regional Lens
Manpreet Sethi. · 12 Jul, 2021 · #5775 · Commentary
A
recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),
London, on how to stabilise the nuclear situation in South Asia, adds to a long
list of offerings by well-meaning strategic analysts and think-tanks from
around the worl ...
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The FATF ‘Grey List’ and Pakistan’s Prospects
Katyayinee Richhariya. · 29 Jan, 2021 · #5753 · Commentary
On 8 January 2021, a Pakistani court sentenced senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader, Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, the
mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, to a five-year imprisonment on
terror financing charges. This came weeks ahead of the February 20 ...
