Issue Brief on “Pakistan’s Participation in SCO Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting in Goa”
There has been much anticipation ahead of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting...
Issue Brief on “Indian Deployment of S-400 Systems in the western state of Punjab”
On December 21,
2021, the Russian and Indian news agencies announced that India deployed the
first battery of state-of-the-art S-400 Air Defence System (ADS) purchased from
Russia...
Issue Brief on “Biden Middle East Trip”
President Biden's Middle East trips came in the backdrop of key critical developments not just in the region itself but around the globe. In...
Issue Brief on “Arms Control & Disarmament in the United Nations New Agenda for...
The General Secretary of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, offered “A New Agenda for Peace” to all UN member states. In this agenda,...
Issue Brief on “Gwadar and Southern Balochistan: Next Stage of Development”
When China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
was launched in 2015, much attention was paid to development of Gwadar port and
city. Both sides had reached an agreement...
Issue Brief on “Shifting Sands: Putin’s Strategic Endeavours in the Middle East (Part 2)”
Immediately after concluding his official commitments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Russian President Vladimir Putin left for Riyadh to participate in the extended...
Issue Brief on “Japan-Australia Reciprocal Access Agreement: Extended Network in the Indo-Pacific”
On January 6, Australia and Japan signed bilateral defense and security agreement, termed as “Japan-Australia Reciprocal Access Agreement” (JA-RAA) that grants reciprocal access between...
Issue Brief on “The State of Food Security in Pakistan”
On May 19, 2022, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari attended the United Nations conference on “Conflict and Food security” where he acknowledged that...
Issue Brief on “Military Spending and Human Development: Setting Priorities Right in the Era...
According to the latest statistics released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), global military expenditure in 2019 has increased 3.6 per cent...
Issue Brief on “Rethinking the Policy Capacity of Pakistan to Adopt Blue-Green Infrastructure”
Background
The notion of incorporating nature into urban planning is becoming quite popular in cities throughout the world, mainly due to aggravating impacts of climate...
