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By Asif Haroon Raja The Fallacy of Binary OutcomesSome analysts are advancing the theory that the US–Iran conflict can end only in either the total destruction of Iran or a…
On December 18, 2024, the United States announced additional sanctions on Pakistan’s National Development Complex (NDC) and…
China's Blackout Bomb
The recent official visit of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, to the…
(By: Nuzhat Nazar) The recent escalation along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border is being described in routine terms such…
After the humiliation suffered by IAF at the hands of PAF in the air duels on 27…
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed a new executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump,…
Governor of Sindh, Kamran Tesori, extended a warm welcome to…
Conducted by the Centre for Development and Stability (CDS) Date:22/2/2026…
The Centre for Development and Stability (CDS) organized 3 days…
The Centre for Development and Stability (CDS) Organized a Seminar…
Asif Haroon Raja Indian policymakers today find themselves in a deep strategic quandary. The political, military, and diplomatic setbacks suffered…
Rare earth elements and other critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, antimony, and tungsten have become the building blocks of…
How Attacks on Chinese Citizens from Afghan Soil Expose a Strategic Failure and Why It Threatens Regional Stability
The clouds of war have once again gathered over South Asia as tensions between India and Pakistan reached dangerous levels.…
Sahafat Newspaper Quetta Calls Attention to CPEC Seminar by CDS in Khuzdar
Pakistan and Azerbaijan have significantly advanced their bilateral relations, reflecting a partnership…
The world was taken by surprise by the swift and decisive U.S.…
By Asif Haroon Raja The Fallacy of Binary OutcomesSome analysts are advancing the theory that the US–Iran conflict can end…
Asif Haroon Raja In the wake of the steadily intensifying cross-border terrorism orchestrated by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Balochistan…
Asif Haroon Raja Iran: Most Sanctioned Country Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has lived under the shadow of…
Given the back-to-back wars in June 2025 and February 2026, and the unresolved core disputes, it is highly doubtful that…
West Asia's Fragile Ceasefire Hangs by a Thread Asif Haroon Raja Trump had imposed a war on Iran on February…
When Time Becomes Iran’s Advantage and America’s Constraint (By: Nuzhat Nazar) The approaching end of the 60-day window under the…
(By: Nuzhat Nazar) With Abbas Araghchi now in Islamabad, and American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arriving in parallel,…
Ceasefire Extension, Hormuz Tensions, and the Emerging Strategic Deadlock Asif Haroon Raja Background Full-scale war broke out on February 28,…
By: Nuzhat Nazar The question is not whether the United States can fight a war with Iran. It clearly can.…
Asif Haroon Raja Current Strategic Landscape Tensions between the United States and Iran have once again approached a critical inflection…
By: Nuzhat Nazar For much of the post Cold War era, the United States did not have to choose between…
Pakistan has, once again, stepped into the global spotlight—this time not as a peripheral actor, but as a pivotal intermediary…
The current mission of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Asim Munir, to Tehran is a move born out…
With a naval blockade tightening in the Gulf and missile batteries shifting across Iran, the US–Iran standoff is no longer…
This "active neutrality" requires Islamabad to serve as a high-stakes courier, translating the rigid security requirements of Washington into a…
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