The debate on the strategic dimension of South Asian politics and its varying patterns under the influences of India-Pakistan protracted conflict has always attracted intellectual circles of the international community. The proponents of arms control and disarmament and the advocators of international non-proliferation regime generally focus on the South Asian nuclear politics in their analysis….
The tragic incident of 9/11 and its response in the form of War on Terror initiated a new debate in world politics in which the entire international system was compelled to join the US-sponsored global counter-terror campaign. Pakistan’s decision to join the global anti-terror alliances, and Islamabad’s active role in fighting the transnational wave of…
The debate on nuclear armed states of South Asia has become a vibrant trend in the international strategic community. Leading policymakers and strategic analysts from diverse backgrounds have shown interest in studying various aspects of South Asian nuclear race in which India and Pakistan are the rivals nuclear weapon states while sharing their territorial borders….
The debate on Pakistan’s contemporary status in the changing regional and international strategic environment has started a new chapter in the history of the nuclearized subcontinent. Presently, critical circles of international community generally prefer to negatively examine the various phases of Pakistan’s political crisis and economic problems. In this way, an overwhelming wave of literature…
Asma Shakir Khawaja, The Grand Trunk Road to Confidence Building Measures Between Pakistan and India (Islamabad: National Defence University, 2018), pp. 334 The question of peace and its relevance to the South Asian region has been addressed by Dr Khawaja, who is presently working in an Islamabad based university. She has earned a doctorate from…
A Study of Attitudes and Values Within the Indian Army by Colonel (R) David O. Smith David Smith’s book The Wellington Experience is a detailed study of Indian army’s prestigious Command & Staff College that trains officers of the armed forces for higher ranks. This book is based on interviews of American army officers who…
Pakistan’s nuclear program in the presence of New Delhi-Islamabad rivalry cannot simply be studied without understanding the role of United States in South Asia. The American involvement in the subcontinent initiated from the British colonial retreat when an international wave of decolonization created Pakistan parallel to declaring India as an independent state. Further political developments…
The debate on Pakistan’s Army and its role in addressing the mainstream security challenges has become one of the essential features of international intellectual communities. The academic communities’ circles from diverse backgrounds have varying opinions on the Army’s role in Pakistan. The book under review provides a comprehensive account of the army’s sacrifices and their…
As I put down reading ‘Blood over Different Shades of Green’, I am struck by the partnership it garnered in Ikram Sehgal, Chand to family and friends, and Bettina Robotka: academician, scholar of history, student-linguist of South Asian languages and, as if, by “whim of God”, drawn to walks around the promenade in Karachi, in…
Today, I’m going to tell you a true story which has more plot twists than an ISPR funded movie gone right. Imagine a Pakistani soldier, spending 99 days in Indian custody as a prisoner of war. While in prison, the Indian guards try to break his sprits with torture, keeping him hungry for days and…
