Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Issue Brief on “European Commission Renews Pakistan GSP+ Status”

On September 22, 2021, Pakistan retained its Generalised Scheme of Preference-Plus (GSP+) status for accessing the European Union's (EU) market. The decision was announced by the European...

Issue Brief on “Indian Assault on Socio-Cultural Identity of Kashmir”

The world is not unaware of India’s limitless tyranny in Kashmir. Its oppression is not only limited to the revocation of the Article 370 and 35A...

Issue Brief on “AUKUS: A Diplomatic Crisis or a Pandora’s Box of Proliferation?”

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia formed a new trilateral security partnership, AUKUS, on September 15, 2021. Under the agreement Australia will acquire nuclear powered submarines...

Issue Brief on “Indian activism in South China Sea – Implications for peace in...

India and Vietnam last month conducted a naval exercise in the South China Sea (SCS). New Delhi tends to step up influence in the SCS and...

Issue Brief on “Basmati Rice: A New Tug-of-War Between India and Pakistan”

India’s application for an exclusive trademark for the grant of sole ownership of the basmati rice title in the European Union is an intellectual assault on Pakistan’s...

Issue Brief on “The First Ever UN Security Council High Level Open Debate on...

“Digital technologies are increasingly straining existing legal, humanitarian and ethical norms, non-proliferation, international stability, and peace and security… These dynamics can encourage States to adopt offensive postures...

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 “Shaheed Syed Ali Shah Geelani: An Ovation”

After relentlessly struggling and fighting against the Indian occupying forces for more than half a century, on the night of September 1, 2021, the...

Issue Brief on “CPC at 100: Achievements and Outlook”

The Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrated its centenary on July 1, 2021. The celebration took place in the famous Tiananmen Square where Chairman Mao Zedong declared...

Issue Brief on “Is India heading towards Digital Authoritarianism?”

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is aiming to convert India into a Hindu- nation state. In this milieu,...

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