by Muhammad Sarmad Zia The case of Alexie Navalny’s anti-corruption protests and his subsequent detention by the Russian police, is…
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By Muhammad Sarmad Zia..... In recent times, there has been a growing interaction between Pakistan and Russia. The increased cooperation between the two states in military and economic matters such as the 2014 lifting of Russian arms embargo on Pakistan, the ensuing defence cooperation agreement in 2015 aimed at promoting security, growing counterterrorism efforts, the
By Dr. Hasan Askari Rizvi Pakistan’s nuclear weapons have a narrow security focus of protecting Pakistan’s national security and policy options against India’s superiority of conventional security apparatus, its flourishing nuclear weapons and the delivery system. Had India not opted for nuclear explosions and weaponization in May 1998, Pakistan was expected to continue with its
By Christine M. Leah A nuclear weapons ban, whilst probably a noble and humanitarian goal, reflects misplaced idealism and an…
By Saima Aman Sial At the 2017 Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., an MIT scholar, talking on causes and consequences of nuclear first-use In South Asia stated that unlike the “conventional wisdom” about possible first use in South Asia, it may be India that uses its weapons first in a decapitating first strike against Pakistan. The revelation,
by Muhammad Sarmad Zia The emerging defence co-operation between Pakistan and Russia, the erstwhile Cold War antagonists may seem rather odd in the backdrop of Russia’s 70 year-long close strategic partnership with India, a longstanding adversary of Pakistan. But this is a reality that defies conventional wisdom and it is being eyed with interest and
by Maryam Zubair North Korea recently conducted an MRBM (Medium Range Ballistic Missile) test with a range of 310 miles…
Last week, Pakistan successfully test-fired an indigenously-developed submarine launched cruise missile called Babur-3, with a range of 450 km, providing Pakistan, which thus far relied only on land/air-based nuclear capabilities, a credible second-strike capability. Although the platform on which the system would be deployed hasn’t been publicly announced, conjecture is it would most likely be
by Huma Rehman The issue of admitting new members is underway; the debate is open, and so is the quest…
If in future the NSG informal consultations take a sway in favour of so-called ‘merit-based approach’ propagated by India as…
