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Original policy research papers offering data-driven arguments, strategic risk assessments, and actionable recommendations.

Down The Line

Features

Commentary

Conflict Tracker

Perspectives

Why India is a Loser

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Umer Farooq

The Borrowed Weapon: Strategic Insolvency and the Nuclear Compensatory Reflex

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Muhammad Mahad Samija

The Complexity of Pakistan’s Civil-Military Relations

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Maj Gen Inam Ul Haque

Space as the Fourth Frontier

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Alamgir Gul

After the War: How Iran’s Deterrence Is Reshaping the Gulf Security Order

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Mohammad Mahdi Dara

Liberation in Name, Terrorist in Deed: Why is BLA a terrorist organization?

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Noor ul Sabha

Echoes

Is America Heading Towards WW3?

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Dr. Bilal Zubair

Trump in Beijing, What’s Next?

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Dr. Aslam Khan

A Year of Deterrence, Diplomacy and Victory

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Dr. Tughral Yamin

Events

SAT X Space

9/11: the Changing Geopolitics of Afghanistan

911 the Changing Geopolitics of Afghanistan

Roundtables

Five Years of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan: Trajectory, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Five Years of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan: Trajectory, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Webinars

Taliban 2.0: Governance, Legitimacy, and the Question of International Recognition

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Book Review

Editor's Pick

Institutional Partnerships

Policy Dialogues

Infovisions

Pakistan's New Regional Trade Corridors
International Political Economy.
A Timeline of Rule and Ethnic Geography
Infographic ranking South Asian passports by visa-free access according to the Henley Passport Index 2023
Infographic chronicling major Maoist and Naxal attacks on Indian security forces since 2010
Infographic on the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War of 1799 and the fall of Tipu Sultan at Srirangapatna
Infographic mapping trade routes and border crossings linking Afghanistan with Central Asian countries
Infographic mapping the targets of ISIS attacks across Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka
Infographic defining enforced disappearances and showing outstanding cases in various countries
Infographic chronicling accidents and safety incidents at nuclear power plants across India
Infographic on Pakistan's nuclear tests of 28 May 1998 in response to India's Pokhran tests
Infographic on the observance of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitar celebrations across South Asia
Infographic analyzing security threats, insurgency and challenges in Balochistan after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Infographic on the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, where Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi and founded the Mughal Empire
Infographic ranking the world's top cyber powers and showing objectives of state-sponsored cyber operations
Infographic showing the merger of militant factions into the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since August 2021
Infographic showing refugee populations hosted by South Asian countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and India
Infographic timeline of Pakistan's engagements with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and its grey list status
Infographic listing terrorist attacks by different groups targeting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
Infographic on the partition of British India into India and Pakistan under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947
Infographic commemorating the Gayari Sector avalanche that buried soldiers of the Pakistan Army's NLI battalion in 2012

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