Challenge of growing threats of climate change on March 12, 2021The non-traditional security threats of the 21st century call for collective responses. No nation can safeguard its non-traditional security solely through its individual effort. Robert Boggs, Professor of South Asia Studies, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, rightly said: prosperity and non-traditional security grow from mutually beneficial cooperation with one’s neighbours and other […]
“Double Whammy of Nested Lockdowns” on August 5, 2020Abrogating the articles 370 and 35A on August 5, 2019, the BJP government dismantled the fate of Kashmiris; further denying them the right to self-determination. Indian annexation of Jammu and Kashmir territory is classified as occupation, which, by all means, is an illegitimate action under international law that prohibits the occupant states from annexing any […]
Psychiatric and societal impact of terrorism on March 18, 2020Pakistan has been a victim of unprecedented levels of psycho-social toxicity. The aftermath of years of war against terrorism, man-made and natural disasters, ethnic and sectarian conflicts, poverty, inequality, insecurity and injustice has affected the psycho-social fabric of the country adversely. The psycho-social toxicity manifestations caused loss of compassion, loss of social, cultural, ethical values […]
Water security on January 11, 2020The current century has dawned with a gloomy picture for the present and future generations of South Asia. The region is faced with water scarcity, with a possible water conflict in the future. Challenges in the water sector largely relate to disputes and difficulties; arising from unequal flow distribution of trans-boundary rivers, as well as […]
Comparative analysis of DDR initiatives on December 7, 2019In the counter-terrorism strategies, multiform of De-radicalization, Disengagement, and Rehabilitation (DDR) Initiatives are world-wide receiving enormous concern today. Extremism will continue to be a socio-political problem and initiatives derived from socio-political and psychological principles are not entirely constant in all the de-radicalization programmes, but undergo multiplicity due to diverse challenges, local threat environment, and political […]
Water: a potential casus belli on September 8, 2019Despite having water agreements with India, the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan, unfortunately, receive an unequal share of their mountainous water resources. Water-sharing is a complex problem. It needs a logical solution for its equitable distribution. However, it is often difficult for the most amiable border nations to reach a unanimously agreed water-sharing formula […]
New trajectory on August 5, 2019Pakistan-Russia relations can best be summarised as a narrative of mutual misunderstandings and miscalculations; that of wasting opportunities due to drifting policies of the two states under geopolitical realities of the Cold War period. History is witness to the fact that their ties mostly remained at the low ebb with a few exceptions of economic, […]
A delicate balancing act in South Asia on July 8, 2019Pakistan-Russia relations have a cloudy history of divergences that heightened during the Cold War and, the subsequent era of the Afghan War. The turning point of reviving their relations appeared in the post-Cold War period when Islamabad joined the war against terrorism, which paved the way for their institutionalised engagement in the form of establishing […]
New trends in defence diplomacy on June 3, 2019For several decades, Pakistan did not have formal defence relations with Russia, except for the helicopter deal of 1969. However, the 21st century witnessed an improvement in defence collaboration in the wake of a visit to Pakistan by former Russian Military Chief Col-Gen Alexander Postnikov in 2011 and the reciprocal visits to Moscow by former […]
Economic diplomacy on May 16, 2019Pakistan-Russia economic relations have evolved steadily. There is a huge scope for them to expand further. The relations were at low ebb for a long time with only a few exceptions in economic, trade and investment cooperation in the 1960s and 1970s. Following a brief period of economic relations in the post-Cold War era, time […]