Pakistan’s Strategic Repositioning in the Post-Galwan Era: From Continental Balancing to Global Diplomatic Centrality
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The geopolitical landscape of South Asia has undergone a profound structural transformation. While the June 2020 Sino-Indian clash in the Galwan Valley established a new strategic reality along the Himalayan frontier, developments throughout 2026 have fundamentally altered Pakistan’s regional and international position. India’s unilateral constitutional and cartographic changes concerning Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh strengthened…
The Illusion of Stability: Assessing the Impact of Extra-Regional Actors in the Indian Ocean
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For over a decade, the strategic discourse surrounding the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has been heavily influenced by the narrative of India aspiring to act as a “net security provider”. However, the recent escalation of maritime incidents in the Gulf of Oman and the broader Arabian Sea has cast a significant shadow over this…
War by Algorithm: The Catastrophic Reality of Algorithmic Warfare and the Imperative for MENAP’s Sovereign Infrastructure
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The contemporary global order is undergoing a fundamental and highly volatile reconfiguration. Traditional metrics of national power, such as military hardware, territorial expanse, and conventional diplomatic reach, are being rapidly superseded by the control of digital systems. This technological evolution has birthed a borderless digital battlefield characterised by persistent, low-level competition involving code, data,…
