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The Pakistan army has honed its ability to keep a sword dangling over the head of every single politician to keep them compliant and obsequious.

Pakistan should be cautious of the excessive IMF lending as the large capital inflows can undermine the BoP viability in the long run

Terror training schools, teaching hundreds of new and young recruits in suicide missions and use of sophisticated weapons like AK-47, Mi-5 and Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), have been active in many parts of Pakistan, including Punjab, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Waziristan and Pak-occupied Kashmir.

This brief situates Pakistan’s pursuit of a sea-based nuclear deterrent within the context of its asymmetric escalation strategy. It does so by examining the role of Pakistan’s land-based tactical nuclear weapons in such strategy, as well as by raising questions about claims that India may be shifting towards a counterforce targeting strategy and thus endangering the survivability of Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent. The brief also reviews clai

While the elections may be over and the PDM may have won this battle, the war continues to be fought.

Pakistan's borrowing history has discouraged IMF and its allies from providing fresh loans or restructuring existing ones.

Avoiding a debt default is virtually impossible, but this crisis can be an opportunity for Pakistan to redeem itself

Pakistan’s strategy of ‘bleeding India by a thousand cuts’ has been implemented by exploiting religious sentiments and whipping up passions on c

Pakistan is aware that its promises sound hollow, when those whom the UN designates as global terrorists, roam freely, give speeches and raise funds t

India is particularly vulnerable to collateral damage on its energy security.

But attracting manufacturers away from China is going to take more than cheap land and labor reforms.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two features of the Nepal-India economic relationship: Nepal’s ballooning trade deficit, and unrestricted cross-border movement of people of both countries. Attributing the trade deficit entirely to supply-side constraints is neither accurate nor conducive to the overall health of the relationship. This brief suggests ways towards more sustainable trade relations between India and Nepal, among them, India r

The new normal would be about reinventing the realms. How would the cities be further planned and developed in the future?

Multinational and multisectoral cooperation is needed to tackle the risk of misappropriation of  COVID-19 funds, preventing the opportunities for org

Online threats to women in India have increased since the pandemic, but a combination of law enforcement, industry cooperation, and strategic partners

World's two major democracies are getting better at riding through the bumps

Paradiplomacy throws up fresh challenges for the Indian government.

Sheikh Hasina's visit to India is viewed with a lot of expectations by both the countries and international observers.

Paradiplomacy as it is conducted by sub-state governments introduces the idea of decentralisation of political power to make regional governments prominent actors in the international sphere. This paper examines the scope for subnational diplomacy in India, as the country seeks to appreciate the significance of federalism and regionalism in promoting local interests, as well as identity, in current international politics. Regional governments ope

Paradiplomacy and leveraging links with other cities is useful in attracting investment and technology, and fostering cultural understanding.

Paradiplomacy forms a quintessential part of the country’s foreign policy analysis in conducting international relations

Balancing competition and monopolies in network industries, Mumbai's inadvertent parallel licensing in electricity retail serves as a focal point for

The development of Hainan SEZ stands to complicate the geopolitical situation of the South China Sea