Guantanamo Bay: Between War and Peace
The Guantanamo Bay detention center has become a haunting image of injustices, abuse, and torture meted out to the inmates unlawfully detained during the War on Terror. Amid calls for its closure, those still imprisoned are in a perpetual limbo between war and peace.
A New Era of Kashmiri Resistance Is Born as Poetry Takes the Helm
Decades upon decades of forced control, yet generations upon generations have not lost hope; A young generation of Kashmiri poets is giving the struggle a new meaning and form.
South Asia: The New Nuclear Age
The security dynamics of South Asia have been exacerbated by the existence of two security rivalry dyads, including China-India and India-Pakistan. Amid ongoing developments, it is not too difficult to foresee heightened nuclear risks and the undermining of regional stability.
India-Pakistan Rivalry and Concepts of Rules, Laws, & Justice
Can a No ball decision in a cricket match awaken the Pakistani Nation to the sinister relationship between power and justice?
COP27: Pakistan Amid Climate Divide
Floods in Pakistan have not only revealed the country\’s extreme vulnerability to climate change but also the great North-South divide whereby the privileged carbon-intensive lifestyles of many in the North have greatly imperiled the relatively disadvantaged South.
US and Afghanistan: Old Foes, New Times
Recent talks between the US and Taliban officials offer a glimpse of hope for renewed engagement between the two countries, but existing fissures will demand greater effort and transformed strategies to cultivate durable peace.
October 8: Of Tremors and Resilience
Through its apocalyptic imagery, October 8 has since its tragic dawn in 2005 captured the zenith of both loss and resilience of the Pakistani nation faced with the continual threat of earthquakes. What does the risk analysis infer?
Caught in Limbo: Afghan Students in India
As 2500 Afghan students await Indian visas, it is crucial to ask whether transnational relations are relatively stronger for some communities than others, and perhaps if doubts can be cast after all on India\’s feelings for Afghans.
India in Afghanistan: Friend or Frenemy?
Despite ideological fissures between a deeply Islamophobic polity of India and the ‘Islamic Emirate’ of Afghanistan, as well as the specter of a troubled past, signs of rapprochement between the two are on the horizon. But at what cost?
The Urgency of Securitizing Disinformation
While Pakistan has an ample sum of troubles to deal with, here is a case for why it should securitize disinformation. In hybrid and 5th generation warfare, cyberspace and disinformation campaigns are extremely lethal weapons used by enemy states. Hence, counter mechanisms must be a top priority.