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Rizwan Zeb

Rizwan Zeb is Associate Professor at Iqra University, Islamabad, research fellow, South Asia Study Group (SASG), University of Sydney, associate editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs and research Fellow at the Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad (on study leave). He is a former Benjamin Meaker professor, University of Bristol, UK and visiting scholar at the India-South Asia Project at the Brookings Institution. He tweets at @SRizwanZeb.

Book review: Analysing the Indo-Pak nuclear threat

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A Punjabi adage “kehna tei noh tay sunanan noh nou” aptly sums up the crisis in the Subcontinent. Moeed Yusuf’s book begins where most of the books on South Asian stability end. What distinguishes this original and thoroughly researched book is that the author has gone beyond just providing a chronological narrative of recent events. […]

An important addition to spook literature, despite flaws

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There is hardly anyone in Pakistan’s strategic community who does not know Dr Hein Kiessling. His book is a welcome addition to literature on Intelligence Studies and fills a void by providing a first comprehensive history of ISI or does he? It has 21 chapters, an introduction, postscript and five appendixes. The book provides valuable […]

Is India-Pakistan ‘competition’ over Afghanistan inevitable?

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As the NATO/US withdrawal date approaches, the future stability of Afghanistan and the region including the neighboring countries is being debated. The problem of Afghanistan is complex and a number of factors, interests and conflicts are further complicating it: the US establishment, the non-Pashtun Afghan establishment sceptical of the Pakistani establishment, the US versus Iran, […]

Does Iran-Pakistan pipeline have a future?

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According to media reports, Saudi Arabia has approached Islamabad offering an energy aid package if Islamabad agrees to abandon the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project. Although the details of this offer are not available, it is an indication that the long-proposed Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline continues to stall. Although Pakistan is facing an imminent energy crisis, […]

India and the peace process

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A renowned political scientist of Pakistan, Professor Rashid Ahmad Khan, wrote an op-ed ‘Pakistan-India dialogue’ (Daily Times, June 10, 2011). The crux of what Dr Khan wrote is that the peace process is moving at a slow pace and there has been no breakthrough yet the fact that both sides are talking indicates their sincere […]