Issue Brief on “SAARC institutional deadlock: India-Pakistan Tensions and Future of Regionalism in South...
Introduction
In spite of being one of the densely populated regions in the world, South Asia lags substantially in building regional cohesion among regional states....
Issue Brief on “IIOJK in 2025: Governance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Control”
Introduction
The year 2025 brought no respite for the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), who continued to suffer under Indian illegal...
Issue Brief on “Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the Era of Strategic Uncertainty?”
On October 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “because of other countries' programs, I have instructed the Department of...
Issue Brief on “Europe’s Peace Proposal Debate on Ukraine: Between Rearmament, Strategic Autonomy and...
The recent debate in the European Parliament (EP) over a “peace proposal” for Ukraine, calling, in various formulations, for a ceasefire, negotiations, or a...
Issue Brief on “Pakistan and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU): Prospects for Strategic Economic...
The evolving global landscape, marked by intensifying multipolarity, sanctions-driven geo-economic fragmentation, and expanding regional blocs, has renewed interest in Pakistan’s potential engagement with the...
Issue Brief on “The Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan (UAP) Railway: A Bridge to Geoeconomics”
Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to Kabul on July 17, 2025, officially paved the way for fast-tracking the Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan (UAP) railway project....
Issue Brief on “A Decade of the India–U.S. Defence Pact: Assessment of Progress and...
The renewal of the India- U.S. defence pact on 31 October 2025 on the sidelines of the recent ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur is...
Issue Brief on “China’s White Paper on Arms Control: An Appraisal”
The contemporary international security environment is defined by increasing strategic uncertainties. Intensifying militarization, arms race, and rapid proliferation of the Emerging and Disruptive Technologies...
Issue Brief on “National Security Strategy 2025: U.S. Strategic Worldview and European Responses”
The November 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America (NSS 2025) marks a decisive shift in Washington’s strategic outlook. Framed explicitly around restoring...
Issue Brief on “Pakistan at COP30: Advancing Climate Justice, Resilience, and Green Transformation”
Pakistan participated in COP30 in Belém, Brazil, representing one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, despite contributing less than 1 per cent to global...
