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Download ndo-Pacific and Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) often construed from the prism of geographic coupling of Pacific and Indian Oceans, and maritime security are, in actual geopolitical developments reflecting the competitive tendencies in region. India is exploiting the competitive tendencies in Indo-Pacific region…

Newspaper Article by Amna Ejaz Rafi 21/10/2025

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India Resumes Direct Flights To China Amid Thaw In Ties And Shifting Geopolitics

Indian airline IndiGo will start direct flights from Calcutta to Guangzhou from 26 October 2025 onwards. The direct flights between India and China were closed in 2020 due to the violent clashes along the disputed Himalayan border. The border clashes along the…

Policy Brief by Hamza Zaman 12/09/2025

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Beyond Doklam: Mapping Strategic Mistrust between India and China

Download India and China have longstanding border disputes on all the three sectors that date back to the pre-partition colonial era. Aksai Chin remains a point of friction in the western sector due to the existence of simultaneous border demarcations i.e. McCartney-MacDonald Line…

Policy Brief by Muhammad Nawaz 29/08/2025

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Culture, Buddhism & Soft Power India’s Religious Diplomacy in Sri Lanka – A Veiled Influence?

Download Given its centrality to the heritage of Buddha civilisation, India uses culture and Buddhism as instruments of soft power in the projection of its foreign policy, aiming to maintain regional hegemony. India claims to uphold the principles of non-coercion and peaceful coexistence…

Dispatches by Nazeef Ellahi 27/08/2025

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Drowning in Debt: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Public debt has surged to an unprecedented high level globally, sparking concerns across policymakers, economists, and institutions. Domestic and external debt, once perceived as a tool to stimulate growth and development, is now widely regarded as a threat to global financial stability,…

Newspaper Article by Amna Ejaz Rafi 20/08/2025

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South Asia’s Prospective Future

Why South Asia has (so far) failed to emerge as an economically integrated bloc like ASEAN. Pakistan and India are the two major countries in region. India has expanded trans-regionally to East Asia; the South Asian country has political ties with ASEAN…

Dispatches by Dr. Roxolana Zigon 22/07/2025

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Empowering Pakistan, Reasoning India, De-Escalating Conflict

Dr Roxolana Zigón The game is afoot? India launched “Operation Sindoor” in the early hours of Wednesday morning of May 7, 2025, in both Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan. It carried out 15 missile strikes on Kotli, and Muzaffarabad in the disputed…

Policy Brief by IPRI 22/07/2025

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Legal Implications of India’s Military UAV Operations Over Pakistan

Download The recent escalation triggered by the Pahalgam incident in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir had been marked by a series of aggressive Indian military operations, carried out under the pretext of countering alleged threats from Pakistan. Despite the lack of credible…