States usually conduct ‘strategic dialogues to conduct regular, high level, comprehensive and forward looking exchanges on wide ranges of issues’. Pakistan and United States last year recommenced the stalled series of extensive working groups, to revisit and manage the ties between two states at different levels, known as ministerial-level strategic […]
The last Vienna Plenary meeting of NSG ended without reaching any consensus on the issue of NSG candidature for non-NPT states. India was lately giving the impression that it has won the support of majority of the states including Mexico, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia and New Zealand. But the fact is […]
Pakistan lately has expressed concern over the latest Indian test of a submarine capable of firing nuclear ballistic missiles, saying the “act will impact the delicate strategic balance in the region”. The test of the nuclear-propelled submarine has been stated as “serious development” resulting into “nuclearization of Indian Ocean”. In […]
Since its inception, one after another, Pakistan’s nuclear programme has always been entangled in a new proposal contrived by US. First it was ‘roll back’, then ‘revised highly enriched uranium (HEU), and now ‘normalizing’ its nuclear programme. Pragmatically, the term Normal Nuclear’ sounds paradoxical, understandable in lexical term yet lack a […]
As the Defense Day was approaching, many outrageous accounts appeared, struggling to reveal a novel version that has not been presented before. Since 1965, a lot number of contradictory narratives have been told about the war, which baffles an ordinary individual to decide about the rational or prejudiced version of […]
The world first observed the devastation of mass destruction during the last days of World War II in August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Two Japanese cities) were hit by two different nuclear bombs. The nuclear bomb was never tested before and for the first time it was tested during World […]
The two subcontinent nuclear powers, Pakistan and India, very recently involved in a war of words which has reopened the debate on South Asian’s nuclear and strategic stability. Predominantly, three official statements from India in scorching ‘June’ have further inflamed the traditional tensions between the two rival nuclear neighbors. Pragmatically, […]
The closing meeting of month-long ninth NPT Review Conference (RevCon) opened a novel debate about the future of the non-proliferation regime. The four weeks long negotiations ended in dismay as the states party to the treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation could not reach on a consensus document to improve progress on […]
It was a bright sunny day, the sky was clear with no cloud sighted, suddenly the earth inside and around the Ras Koh Hills shook with tremors. The black rock turned into white, the dust from the mountain displaced and smoke covered the hills at the ‘push of button’. After […]
In the perspective of the new great game, Western Asia/Middle East has emerged as a highly significant strategic constituent of the international political landscape. The complex calculus of Western Asia has affected the direction of integration, complexions of regional politics, sectarian crisis and nuclear non-proliferation. The contemporary interplay of regional […]
