Strategic Perspectives Through Research and Dialogue

Issue Brief on “An Appraisal of Pakistan’s Bulging Population”

On September 24, 2021, Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing Kissan Card distribution ceremony in Dera Ismail Khan stated that, "If population grows at the current pace,...

Issue Brief on “Climate Refugees in Pakistan”

In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration, with millions of...

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...

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