Ali Sarwar Naqvi

Ali Sarwar Naqvi is Executive Director at the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS), Islamabad.

The Center for International Strategic Studies hosted Dr. Moeed Yusuf, Associate Vice President Asia programs at US Institute of Peace (USIP), for a round-table discussion on Tuesday, February 6th 2018. Dr. Yusuf discussed his forthcoming book, Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: US Crisis Management in South Asia, which will be published by the prestigious Stanford
CISS conducted a round-table with Mr. Tyler Jost on National Security Decision-Making in a Comparative Context: China, India and Pakistan, which is the subject of his thesis research on Tuesday, the 12th of December, 2017.  Mr. Jost is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University and visiting fellow at the Center
India has shifted the conflict to sub-conventional level by resorting to use of terrorism and proxies against Pakistan after realizing that conventional war was inconceivable due to its nuclear capabilities. This was stated by Adviser National Command Authority (NCA) Khalid Kidwai while speaking at the 6th workshop on ‘Defence, Deterrence and Stability in South Asia’,
The Center for International Strategic Studies organized a round-table discussion on Wednesday, the 8th of November, 2017 titled “The Iranian Perspective on Iran-Pakistan Relations and Regional Security” at Serena Hotel, Islamabad. The speaker for the occasion was Dr. Saadullah Zarei, an Iranian scholar from the think tank Andisheh-Sazan-e-Noor Institute for Strategic Studies based in Tehran.