The recent visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Islamabad in the first week of March 2022 has re-energized academic debate on Pakistan-Central Asian relations. The intellectual circles of the international community started paying attention to the developments of multidimensional cooperative ties between Pakistan and the group of five Central Asian Republics. Also the leaders…
The global nuclear debates started focusing on South Asian regional politics with the prevalence of nuclear shadows on the decades-long India-Pakistan rivalry. Academic circles of the international strategic community diverted their attention towards the South Asian nuclear order while developing their analysis on the India-Pakistan strategic competition. Apart from fluctuating viewpoints, the Indian and Pakistani…
The recently held Indian-Central Asian multilateral summit meeting has refreshed New Delhi’s desire for enhancing its influence beyond South Asia. The virtual meeting hosted by Prime Minister Modi was based on the formulation of a broader inter-regional framework for cooperative ties between India and the five Central Asian Republics (CARs). The vision of regional security and stability…
The history of nuclear politics has witnessed various developments of arms control and disarmament initiatives in which the proponents of the international non-proliferation regime adopted various measures for regulating nuclear behaviour of different states. The quest for effectively countering the states’ desires for transforming nuclear technology from a peaceful to non-peaceful dimension has always been…
Pakistan’s recently launched National Security Policy (NSP) has altered the traditional notion of security in the country by marking a significant paradigm shift in the existing concept of national security. The shifting of focus from the narrow definition of security to the broader concept of security has sparked a new debate where people from different…
A refined version of New Delhi’s foreign relations under the Modi regime has improved the Indian position in world politics where the leaders of different nations have started developing cooperative relations with India. The combination of economic and strategic ties with India has let the international community to consider New Delhi as an important player…
The recent meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) communicated to the international community Pakistan’s vision for managing its regional affairs peacefully with the help of Muslim countries. The government of Pakistan called the OIC members on the issue of Afghanistan, which could become a great humanitarian crisis after the US withdrawal. Through hosting…
The emerging trilateral cooperative interaction between three Muslim nations has communicated to the world at large the strengthening of Islamabad’s role in maintaining cooperative relations with the Islamic world, where Pakistan has always strived to consolidate the potential of Muslim countries. The objective of enhancing its position in the Muslim world moved Pakistani leaders to…
The debate on evolving global politics cannot be divorced from China’s emerging role in the international system. Beijing’s global economic plans under the broader framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was formally known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), became the foundational stone of China’s global economic plans. The announcement of BRI…
The international intellectual debates of non-proliferation politics usually adopt a critical framework for examining South Asian politics where the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapon capabilities have intensified the regional security environment of South Asia. The evolving complex regional security environment of the nuclearized subcontinent always remained dependant on the New Delhi-Islamabad strategic completion, which attracts…
