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Mahrukh Khan


Research Fellow

Areas of Research:

North & South America

Mahrukh Khan did her M.Sc in Defense and Strategic Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University in 2008. She has been affiliated with the Institute since. Her area of research is Pakistan – United States relations and Baluchistan.

Mail mahrukhkhan@issi.org.pk

Issue Brief on “Falcon Talon 2022”

For the first time in three years, Pakistan and United States Air Forces held a joint exercise, under the title of ‘Falcon Talon 2022,’...

Issue Brief on “The State of Climate Change Services 2021: Water – Report Takeaways”

The recently released report by the World Meteorological Organization, titled “The State of Climate Change Services 2021: Water” paints a grim picture of the...

Issue Brief on “At 76, is the UN still Relevant in the Current Geopolitical...

As the United Nations turns 76 years, it is caught in a dilemma of the relevance of its existence and the ability to lead as a global...

Issue Brief on “Reactions of the US Congress on the US Hasty Pullout from...

President Biden has been a proponent of bringing back forces even when he was the Vice President during the Obama administration and his top goal after...

Issue Brief on “Pakistan US Relations: The Shifting Sands”

As the war in Afghanistan comes to an end, the US withdraws its forces along with its heavy investments with a cost of more than US$2...

Issue Brief on “US-Russia Summit 2021: Reviving the Entente”

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden met for a bilateral summit in Geneva on June 16, 2021. The high stake summit came at...

Report “XVI SCO Forum”

The XVI Session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Forum was held on May 25, 2020 in a video conference format in Islamabad, Islamic Republic of Pakistan,...

US Indo-Pacific Strategy: Implications for South Asia

Abstract The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ was first coined by the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in his speech delivered to the Indian parliament in 2007 which...

Issue Brief on “US Human Rights Report – 2020: An Appraisal and Key Takeaways”

Pledging to put human rights back at the center of American foreign policy, President Biden and his administration released its Human Rights Report – 2020 (HRR-2020) in...

Issue Brief on “Biden Administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance Report: The Essence”

The White House issued its first Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG) report on March 3, 2021, which lays down the organizing principles of...