Issue Brief on “BRICS and Pakistan – Assessing Opportunities & Challenges”
In the age of intensifying bloc politics and increasing fluidity in contemporary international affairs, the XV BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, held on August 22-24,...
Issue Brief on “ASEAN Solidarity Exercise 2023 (ASEX 2023) in the South China Sea”
Introduction
From 5-7 September 2023, Indonesia hosted the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, and just after a fortnight i.e., from...
Issue Brief on “Health hazards caused by increasing air Pollution in Pakistan”
Background
The air quality in Pakistan’s major urban centres has considerably deteriorated over the past five years. Lahore and other cities regularly feature in the...
Issue Brief on “Pakistan’s Position on Second Annual Progress Report of the UN OEWG...
The Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on the security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) 2021-2025 reached a consensus on...
Issue Brief on “North Korea-Russia Relations: Post Putin-Kim Summit”
One of the most prominent highlights of September 2023 was the Summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un...
Issue Brief on “‘India’, ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’: Old Tactics, But New Agendas of BJP’s...
“India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States,” stipulates the Indian constitution depicting the arduous debates that led Parliament to adopt both...
Issue Brief on “From Vision to Reality: A Decade of China’s Global Community of...
The Chinese vision for a global community of shared future is entrenched in the idea of building cooperation, mutual development, and peaceful coexistence among...
Issue Brief on “India’s Nuclear Program: How Come it is Not Seen as the...
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently published the Nuclear Weapons of Pakistan, 2023 report. Among other things, it also published an estimate of Pakistan’s...
Issue Brief on “Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar’s Speech at the 78th UNGA Session –...
“Development depends on peace…”
Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar addressed the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 22, 2023, and put...
Issue Brief on “The India – Middle East – Europe Corridor (IMEC): A Complex...
On 10 September 2023, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, alongside representatives from...
