A US-based policy platform has analysed Pakistan’s conventional deterrence capability, and said it now has a range of non-nuclear response options. New Delhi: Pakistan is no slouch when it comes to conventional military deterrence. In fact, it is equipping its military with a dual-track modernisation programme, which can combat India’s denial strategies and limited war
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Many computer security experts have celebrated the development of Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) in which it revised and added new export control rules for computer network intrusion software in its export control list. In the same plenary meeting in 2017, WA, a voluntary arrangement which governs the trade of conventional weapons and technologies for its group
Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. During this time, Pakistan’s latent nuclear capability provided an effective deterrent, which served to offset the conventional and nuclear threats from India. However, twenty years since India’s entrance into the
India’s pursuit of advanced military technologies has enabled it to secure its place among the world’s top importers of conventional weapons over the past two decades. India has also been investing in developing missile defenses for a Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield coupled with an integrated, and multi-layered air defence network. After testing the Prithvi
The Chinese economy has already outgrown the U.S. economy. India has also replaced France and is now the sixth largest economy in the world. Both countries are also major political and military powers with growing regional and global stakes, respectively. However, they have opposite political systems and divergent views on most global issues. While India
by Maryam Masood.... Missile defense systems are intended to safeguard a country against imminent ballistic missile attacks. Both THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) and S-400 are missile defense systems, developed by the United States and Russia respectively. THAAD is a relatively recent addition in America’s anti-ballistic missile defense system which has the capability to
A fundamental point underlies the US-Pakistan relationship: Washington seeks Islamabad’s support in the honorable exit from Afghanistan. After 17-years of war, the interests of the United States and Pakistan seem to have aligned in pursuing a negotiated settlement of the Afghan conundrum. This reality presents to the new government in Islamabad with what Michael Kugelman
The story of India-Russia space partnership is nothing new, but it is important to analyze this collaboration in the context of the US grant of status of a Major Defence Partner to India. In 1984, the phrase “saare jahan sy acha†made its way to the big news in USSR media because the first Indian
On 9th January, 2017, Pakistan test fired a sea-variant of Babur cruise missile, with a range of 450 km, from an underwater movable platform. The ISPR Press release stated in this regard that, “the successful attainment of a second strike capability by Pakistan represents a major scientific milestone; it is manifestation of the strategy of
One of the key challenges to Pakistan’s foreign policy relates to how it navigates its policy in the volatile Middle East. In this regard, balancing its relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran would be thwarted by the bitter rivalry between the two bastions of the Muslim World. Saudi Arabia had offered $1.5 billion as a
