Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal

THE rapid transformation in the international strategic environment and increasing probability of state-on-state wars have immensely revitalized the concept of collective security. The United States…

THE risk of termination of the current ceasefire and recommencement of war persists between the nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Last month, during a four-day military…

PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s frustrated militaristic mindset and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s firmness over Iran’s sovereign right to have a…

The great powers’ strategic competition and the insecure states’ increasing reliance on nuclear weapons for sovereign defence have undermined the nuclear arms control regime. Besides,…

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi and his cohorts have strived to sustain their popularity with the public through fictitious narratives and bellicose rhetoric. They are taking…

THE recent four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan, the continuity of the Ukrainian war since February 2022, the increasingly alarming situation in the Middle…

INDIA has been striving to establish a ‘new normal’ in its relations with Pakistan. This ‘new normal’ involves responding to terror attacks in India, including…

THE recent ceasefire between Pakistan and India has averted catastrophe in the region. Besides, it reconfirmed Islamabad and New Delhi’s dependency on the external powers’…

  THE relations between India and Pakistan have taken a severe hit since the Pahalgam attack on April 22, 2025. The Modi Government’s hyper-knee-jerk reaction…

THE increasing investment in space warfare technologies raises the alarm about space weaponization. Strategic analysts point out that advances in space weapons could destabilize the…