Every year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) publishes a yearbook that accounts for global military spending, evaluates international arms transfers, analyzes world nuclear forces and surveys active regional conflicts. The SIPRI Yearbook published in June 2026 identifies unprecedented developments in South Asia.
Fakhar Alam
Fakhar Alam
Fakhar Alam is Research Officer at the Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS), Islamabad.
For the last decade, India has been officially putting efforts into isolating Pakistan diplomatically in the global political arena. Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi, speaking at a public rally in 2016 in Kerala, promised he would isolate Pakistan diplomatically. In the years to come, India engaged its diplomatic machinery and established a strong case in Western capitals that Pakistan sponsors terrorism in India.
The crisis stability in South Asia remains severely fragile, given the nature of India-Pakistan relations. The May 2025 post-Pahalgam four-day conflict has further highlighted the challenges for regional crisis stability. Since the nuclearization of South Asia, India has been trying to carve out a space for a limited war under the nuclear overhang against Pakistan.
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