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Ali Sarwar Naqvi
Ali Sarwar Naqvi

  • February 17, 2025

    The paradox of US policy

    Most plausible reason behind this outburst appeared to be effort to lock new US administration in a negative bind with Pakistan

  • October 05, 2024

    The case for nuclear energy

    Electricity can be generated through various fuels and technologies, each with its own pros and cons

  • August 17, 2018

    Reviewing foreign policy

    We have spent far too long establishing our ‘influence’ in the...

  • August 16, 2018

    Reviewing foreign policy

    As the newly elected government assumes the reins of power, it is an...

  • May 30, 2017

    Remembering the nuclear tests

    Pakistan’s nuclear tests conducted on May 28, 1998, were a...

  • December 23, 2016

    Manoeuvres for NSG entry

    The annual plenary session of the Nuclear Suppliers Group held in Seoul...

  • October 15, 2016

    What next on the NSG?

    The issue of the membership of non-NPT signatory states in the Nuclear...

  • August 30, 2016

    What do we do about Kashmir?

    The eruption in Kashmir this summer, triggered by the dastardly killing...

  • June 23, 2016

    The case for Pakistan

    As an advanced and experienced nuclear capable state with strong...

  • June 02, 2016

    Deterrence stability in 2016

    As we pass another anniversary of our May 28, 1998 nuclear tests, it is...

  • May 20, 2016

    A nuclearised Indian Ocean

    While the international strategic community continues to be preoccupied...

  • April 09, 2016

    India’s nuclear arsenal

    While India’s nuclear arsenal has been growing over recent years,...

  • February 26, 2016

    Our nuclear security

    The spectre of Pakistan’s insecure nuclear arsenal has again been...

  • October 01, 2015

    ‘Normal’ nuclear Pakistan

    A new report jointly issued earlier this month by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center, two renowned Washington-based think tanks, titled ‘A new normal nuclear...

  • August 25, 2015

    India, Pakistan and the NSG

    India has been striving for the last seven years for admission into the world’s most exclusive cartel, the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group , but the prospect of its membership grows bleaker as time...

  • July 15, 2015

    Regional auguries

    It is remarkable how the regional scenario has suddenly taken a turn towards a more promising outlook in contrast to the picture as obtained only a few weeks ago. This is true for both Pak-Afghan...

  • May 28, 2015

    Seventeen years of deterrence

    Seventeen years have passed since we conducted our five nuclear tests on the 28th of May, 1998 in the barren wastes of Chagai in Balochistan. The tests were conducted in direct response to India’s...

  • April 01, 2015

    The Yemen imbroglio

    The ancient land of Yemen bore the name of ‘Arabia Felix’, roughly translated as Arabia the happy, in view of its salubrious climate, fertile land and plentiful water. This turned out to be...

  • February 17, 2015

    A great deal of instability

    During President Obama’s recent visit to India, it was announced that the US and India had revived the hamstrung nuclear deal that was first conceived in Washington in July 2005, and enacted in...