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West Asia's Fragile Ceasefire Hangs by a Thread Asif Haroon Raja Trump had imposed a war on Iran on February 28 with no congressional authorization, or clearance from the UN,…
The back of terrorism was successfully broken in 2015 by the brave hearts of Pak Army and…
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will hold its 25th Leaders’ Summit in Tianjin, China, from August 31…
The power of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which lasted for 24 years, appeared to have declined. News…
The idea of creating new provinces in Pakistan is not new and has been debated many times.…
The Taiwan issue has become one of the most sensitive topics in world politics. It is not…
The term BRIC was first coined by economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 to describe four emerging economies…
The Centre for Development and Stability (CDS) Organized a Seminar…
CDS and COMEX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…
The seminar was held at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University…
Governor of Sindh, Kamran Tesori, extended a warm welcome to…
Since yesterday, the world watched tears, joy, hope, and cautious optimism as an unprecedented hostage-for-prisoner swap took effect. All living…
Notably, four Israeli female soldiers who were captured during a Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, were freed and handed…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin has placed Pakistan’s concerns and vision…
(By: Nuzhat Nazar) The recent escalation along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border is being described in routine terms such as infiltration, retaliation…
The biggest achievement of the Crime Control Department (CCD) so far is…
By drawing an analogy and zooming into the behavior of United States,…
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…
(By: Nuzhat Nazar) What we are witnessing around Pakistan’s role in the Iran–US talks is no longer just occasional mediation.…
Asif Haroon Raja The atmosphere in both Pakistan and Iran was initially one of cautious optimism when Pakistan successfully brokered…
Asif Haroon Raja The confrontation between the United States and Iran entered a critical phase in early April, when Donald…
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