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Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?

Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?

India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a crisis once again, following an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district of...

01.05.2025 3

South Asian Voices

Sitara Noor

Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack

Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack

The recent terror at t ack in Pahalgam, which targeted unarmed civilians and killed 26 people, marks a dangerous escalation between nuclear rivals...

01.05.2025 1

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Sarral Sharma

The Fragility of Stability: India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs in the Shadow of Pahalgam

The Fragility of Stability: India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs in the Shadow of Pahalgam

The ensuing India-Pakistan crisis in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack has once again put the fragile architecture of regional stability under...

29.04.2025 10

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Haleema Saadia

Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses

Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses

As its first response to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, initially claimed by an offshoot of the...

29.04.2025 2

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Bashir Ali Abbas

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...

24.04.2025 4

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Christopher Clary

The Future of the India-Pakistan Nuclear Rivalry

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...

23.04.2025 70

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Rabia Akhtar

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

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....

23.04.2025 30

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Sav Editorial Staff

Risks of Asymmetry and Future Escalation in India-Pakistan Relations

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...

23.04.2025 10

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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...

23.04.2025 4

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Brig. Imran Hassan

Reflections on Pulwama-Balakot at Five Years

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...

23.04.2025 1

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Christopher Clary

Institutionalizing Nuclear Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan

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...

23.04.2025 1

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Haleema Saadia