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Why the Kashmir Attack Could Start Another India-Pakistan Crisis

On Tuesday, April 22, terrorists attacked a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 26 people and injuring several more. It...

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Christopher Clary

The Future of the India-Pakistan Nuclear Rivalry

This month marks 22 years since the nuclearization of India and Pakistan. These last 22 years have seen multiple Indo-Pak crises, each evoking at...

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Rabia Akhtar

The Crisis That Wasn’t: A Review of India’s Accidental Missile Launch into Pakistan

On March 9, a cruise missile launched from Western India crossed the international border into Pakistan, landing in the small city of Mian Channu....

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Sav Editorial Staff

Risks of Asymmetry and Future Escalation in India-Pakistan Relations

Last year, in response to a suicide bombing on a convoy of paramilitary forces in Indian Administered Jammu & Kashmir, India carried out the its...

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Mansoor Ahmed

Nuclear South Asia: Three Years After the February 2019 Kashmir Crisis

In the months following the February 2019 crisis between India and Pakistan, reports emerged that India had deployed its naval assets—including the...

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Brig. Imran Hassan

Reflections on Pulwama-Balakot at Five Years

Pakistan is almost entirely absent from India’s strategic discourse in the contemporary moment. Indian interlocutors mention this absence...

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Christopher Clary

Institutionalizing Nuclear Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan

The absence of an institutionalized Nuclear Confidence-Building Measures (NCBMs) regime between India and Pakistan is an obstacle to the effective...

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Haleema Saadia

The EU-India Partnership: Realigned and Re-imagined?

Last month, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and a team of European Union (EU) Commissioners was on an official visit to...

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Jivanta Schottli

What Evolving Pak-Bangla Relations Mean for Southern Asia

South Asia seems to be witnessing a paradigm shift as Bangladesh and Pakistan—nations once torn apart by a violent separation and decades of...

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Saqlain Rizve

Sanctions against Pakistan’s Missile Program: Shifting U.S. Priorities in South Asia 

On December 18, 2024, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on four Pakistani entities over their involvement in the alleged development of...

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Syed Adnan Athar Bukhari

The Indian Ocean’s Maritime Security Dilemma 

The Indian Ocean is at the heart of an evolving maritime security crisis. The region is witnessing an exponential rise in both legitimate and...

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Javaid Iqbal

Can South Asia Capitalize on Global Supply Chain Restructuring?

President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape international trade are only the latest in a long list of recent disruptions that have shaken the...

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Surendar Singh

Reassessing Pakistan’s Economic Trajectory: Can Uraan Pakistan Break the Cycle of Debt and Dependency?

Despite being one of the world’s largest recipients of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, Pakistan’s economy continues to falter, with rising...

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Maheen Khan