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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

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

Ignoring the TTP Leaves the Moscow Format’s Counterterrorism Hollow

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Haleema Khalid

When Cheap Drones Challenge Expensive States

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Muti Ur Rehman

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 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
Infographic on Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Infographic marking Kashmir Martyrs Day and the Dogra rule massacre of 13 July 1931
Infographic on the Simla Agreement signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972
Infographic comparing nuclear power plants, reactors and nuclear energy capacity in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Infographic showing the ethnic composition, poverty rates and literacy rates across Afghanistan
Infographic timeline tracing the history of Afghanistan from 539 BC to the present day
Infographic mapping cross-border attacks along Pakistan's western borders in 2020
Infographic on India's National Emergency declared in 1975 and its impact on democracy and civil liberties
Infographic documenting civilian casualties and human rights violations in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir since 1989
Infographic showing the global death toll linked to contaminated Indian cough syrups across India, Gambia, Uzbekistan and Indonesia
Infographic mapping terrorist attacks claimed by TTP and BLA on Pakistan security forces since August 2021
Infographic showing Indian-linked WhatsApp groups and troll accounts spreading fake news during the ILP protests
Infographic detailing India's cyber warfare operations and disinformation campaigns targeting Pakistan
Infographic highlighting Pakistan's climate change policies, protected areas and the Clean Green Pakistan movement
Infographic on the first nonstop flight from the UK to British India piloted by Jones-Williams and Norman Jenkins in 1929

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