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The article assesses the role of cyber warfare in the Indian-Pakistan deterrence framework, focusing on the risk of cyber escalation and its implications for nuclear stability. Topics discussed include the nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan since the 1970s, cyber warfare capabilities of India and Pakistan, and potential cyber escalation scenarios.

The International Code of Conduct for Information Security (ICCIS) is an international effort to develop norms of behaviour in the digital space, submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2011 and in revised form in 2015 by member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). According to its sponsors, the Code is intended to push forward the international debate on international norms on information security, and help forge an early consensus on this issue. With its connections to the SCO, the Code raises significant concerns over ambitious but ambiguous poster of international actors especially the Western powers towards their clandestine behavior in the sphere of digital space. The SCO states have been successful in building consensus around the Code given the 'post-Snowden' and 'Arab Spring' international political environment. Moreover, the SCO states confidently view the Code as a vehicle to redefine notions of sovereignty and territorial integrity to the digital space. Terrorism, extremism, separatism, and information security are posing fundamental challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity of nation states. Some of the dominant states that exercise not only political, diplomatic, economic and military power over weak states to bulldoze their will are now very much capable of exploiting the digital space to shake the very stable foundations of sovereignty and territorial integrity. The close outlook of the International Code of Conduct for Information Security maintains a balance view towards safety and security for all. Due to its origin from the SCO member states, the Code already exists as a parallel binding agreement within Shanghai Cooperation Organization. All the new member states joining SCO will have to endorse and implement the SCO agreement on Information Security. Pakistan and India as new members will not be exception to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large scale armored offensive with air support proved to be very effective throughout the history of armored assaults. fast attacks spearheaded by well designed and well deployed main battle tanks cause the attacker to succeed on many occasions due to their firepower and ability to strike with surprise. on the other hand, the antiarmor defense had also been trialed and perfected and successfully executed throughout previous battles. It was in 2004 when India, fascinated by numerical armor superiority declared her intentions to rage a limited war against Pakistan and gain strategic operational area to clear self-proclaimed terrorist hideouts. Pakistan responded with full show of military might and declared the use of tactical nuclear weapons against armor offensive. The declaration of tactical nuclear weapons under the doctrine to strike first will lead Pakistan to global isolation and requires immense resources which may prove to be detrimental to the dwindling economy of Pakistan. also this move indirectly proves inability of the Pakistan army to halt any large scale armor offensive. In this regards, a thorough literature review has been presented and a brief study has been conducted to understand the strengths and weaknesses of both the nations with the emphasis to develop a carefully crafted Pakistan Marine air ground task force (MaGTf) having ability to conduct anti-armor operations. The MaGTf is essentially a combined arms organization under a single and able commander, possessing all the necessary air and ground assets to defend against large scale armor conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the bilateralism of Pakistan with India and mentions multilateral conference attended by Foreign Minister Bilwal Bhutto-Zardari in India. Topics discussed include illegal decision of abrogating Article 295 by the government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), views of Ajit Doval, Former India's National Security Advisor, on defensive offense of India, and how India has never been policy manifestor for winning elections by Pakistani political parties.

The article discuses Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit held in New Delhi India in May 2023. Topics discussed include intensing tension between India and Pakistan, interest of the countries in combating terrorism weakened overall counter-terrorism stance of the region, and importance of diplomacy and dialogue in resolving the issues.

The article offers information on how Kashmiris who live in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) boycotted the official celebrations of the India's Republic Day on January 26, 2017. Pakistani flags are raised at each building to demonstrate collective rejection of illegitimate occupation of Indian people. An Indian government prompted delegation headed by former Indian Minister Yashwant Sinha has warned catastrophic situation in Jammu and Kashmir if India fails to attain realties on the dispute.

The article discusses the dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the historic 1960 Indus Waters Treaty under which allotting three Western rivers of the Indus basin, namely Jhelum, Chenab, and the Indus were allotted to Pakistan while the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers were allotted to India. Topics include the challenges posed by population swifts and climatic changes, Pakistan's request for the Court of Arbitration's appointment under the treaty, and India's efforts to terminate it.

The article discusses Indian defense policy to strengthen its position in the maritime domain by increasing bilateral naval colllaborations and naval modernization. Topics include the Indian Navy's efforts to improve its conventional warfare capabilities by signing strategic collaborations with other nations; how oceanic politics has become an essential dimension of India-Pakistan strategic competition; and launch of nuclear-capable submarine INS Arihant compelled Pakistan.

The article discusses the need for a new paradigm with South Asia regionalism. Topics discussed include creation of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1985, theories that drive regionalism, and reasons for limited success of SAARC such as permanence of poor state of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan, and positive aspects like establishment of food and Development Banks and SAARC University. It discusses Octagonalism as collaboration of heads of government.

India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue to take the preventive measures in real earnest and India must try and rein in the detractors. The stakes are staggeringly high for both. Failure in carrying forward the initiative for comprehensive dialogue that has happily begun may have winners among the 'nay-sayers', but will also have two losers: India and Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the touring of U.S. President Donald Trump, to the parts of Asia. It mentions that Trump administration is focused on improving relations between India and Pakistan, that would allow the country to focus on Afghanistan. It focuses on the U.S. Secretary of State Rrex Tillerson’s visit to South Asia.

The author expresses his views on the possession of nuclear weapons by Pakistan, and the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan. According to the author, Pakistan has acquired the domestic capability to build a nuclear arsenal during the three decades preceding 2015. The author says that since 1998, India and Pakistan have had relations where an armed conflict was expected; and in 2001, the Indian parliament was reportedly attacked by a Pakistani intelligence agency called the ISI.

The article discusses on the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). It cites on the dispute of India and Pakistan over Jadhav, citing the Pakistan arguments in reference to the 2008 bilateral agreement between the two countries that sets limits for both countries providing consular excess in capturing lawbreakers from each other's country. The article also discusses on the confessional video of Jadhav on his involvement in espionage in Pakistan.

The author discusses the relationship of India with various countries, like Pakistan and China. Topics include the move of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sending emissary to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the effort of the country, approaching the International court of Justice (ICJ) to save Indian terrorist mastermind-cum-spy Kulbhushan Jhadeve, and the plan of Modi to isolate Pakistan diplomatically.

The article presents the author's views on relation of India with china and Pakistan. Topics discussed include Indian government rejects a private bill by an independent parliamentarian to declare Pakistan a terrorist state; Pakistan and India agrees to extend their bilateral agreement on reducing risk from accidents related to nuclear weapons; and Indian president Pranab Mukherjee invites Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai lama to President House to discuss social issue.

The article reports that Pakistan's desire to acquire nuclear weapon status for strengthening of its national security while defending its sovereign values against potential rivals was introduced by the tenth Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It states that the successful acquisition of nuclear weapon status was declared by the thirteenth Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. It reports how the quest for proper security against Indian provocative approach has always remained Pakistan's policy.

The article offers information on the decision of Pakistan to launch another outreach effort to improve relations with Afghanistan and India in 2017. It mentions that what needs attention is to identify the fault lines that come in circles to haunt every effort by Pakistan. It states that interaction with the political leadership need to be left to appropriate tiers of political leadership of Pakistan while communication with military command could be termed as right.

The article focuses on the need of Pakistan and India to develop a cyber security strategy to prevent non state actors from exploiting their hostile relationship. It offers an overview of the cyber security strategy of India and Pakistan to address the growth of cyber crime and spying of other countries such as the U.S. on Pakistan. It adds that coordination of cyber security strategy is needed for both states to prevent the rise of new arms race and conflicting zone from cyber space.

In this article the author comments on Pakistan's defense policies. He mentions Pakistan's test firing of its Shaheen 1A missile within a week of India's launch of Agni V, which was a response and demonstration of national resolve. He says that Pakistan cannot be oblivious to emerging threats, in view its complex relations with India. He terms India as the lead state actor in weapon proliferation activities in South Asia.

The author discusses the importance of the Cold Start Doctrine (CSD) of the armed forces in India. He emphasizes the implications of the doctrine on the international relations with Pakistan. He describes the counter measures of Pakistan to the CSD which will be based on a theory of Integrated Strategic Equivalence (ISE).

The article discusses the position of Pakistan in the international diplomacy. Topics discussed include the country's national interest and security, the conflict between India and Pakistan, and the benefits of diplomacy in areas including education, immigration, and interests in trade and economic.

The article offers the author's insights on the independence day celebration of Pakistan and India on August 14 and 15. Topics mentioned include the rejoice of independence from each other not from the colonial master which is Great Britain, the freedom of Pakistan from Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), and the invitation to Indian Foreign Secretary to visit Islamabad, Pakistan to discuss the Jammu & Kashmir conflict.

The article discusses the culpability of the British in India in the origin of the Kashmir conflict, and the suggestion by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir not be a precondition for India-Pakistan dialogue to resume. Topics discussed include the involvement of the late last Viceroy Lord Mountbatten in the engineering of the Kashmir dispute, shift in U.S. policy on Kashmir, and parameter of Pakistan-India relationship defined by Kashmir.

In the article, the author discusses developments in the relationship between India and Pakistan as of January 2016. He criticizes the move by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to advance a single track strategy toward India. Also cited are the failure of the two countries to collaborate on crisis management, the efforts by the National Security Advisers of Pakistan and India to investigate the attack on the Indian Air Force Station Pathankot, and the counter terrorism effort by Pakistan.

The article discusses the speech of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, delivered at the United Nations General Assembly 70th session in 2015, where he proposed a peace initiative comprising of four specific and feasible steps. These steps include Pakistan and India formalise and respect 2003 understanding of a complete ceasefire in Kashmir and Line of Control, both countries reaffirm not to resort to the threat of force under any circumstances, and the decentralisation of Kashmir.

The article presents the international relations of Pakistan with India and the United States. It states that Pakistan and the US should focus on intelligence sharing, education profile, wealth investment, and technology transfer based on sovereign equality and reciprocity. India should see Pakistan as a strategic ally rather than an adversary in the wake of Taliban rule in Afghanistan and should focus on normalizing ties with Pakistan and respond with a statesmanship approach.

The article discusses the conflict between India and Pakistan. Topics covered include Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's desperateness to take rule over Kashmir territory, his attempt to twist the history of the 1965 war in which he claims the victory, and his effort in teaming up with Arab countries to go against the Pakistan nation.

The article presents the author's views on the dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir, India. Topics discussed include United Nations (UN) Security Council (SC) resolution over Kashmir, ceasefire violations along the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir, and deteriorating relations between the two countries. The stance of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the dispute are also discussed.

The author discusses political aspects over charges of treason made against Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit and freedom movement leader Shabir Ahmed Shah which is viewed as a conspiracy against India. The author speculates the meeting with Kashmir and Jammu, India's leaders as for purposed of resolving issues on the peace processes with Pakistan. The author is particular over India's anger Pakistan's intervention towards the political leadership in Kashmir and Jammu.

The article focuses on the terrorist attack in Karachi Airport in Pakistan which was condemned by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his expression on the people who died during the attack. Topics discussed include the relationship between Pakistan and India in terms friendship, the claim of the Islamic Movement for Uzbekistan regarding their attack on the airport, and the move done by the Pakistan government to ensure security and peace in the country such negotiating with Taliban.

The author discusses aspects of a meeting between Pakistan Prime Minister (PM) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and India's PM Narendra Modi held in New Dehli, India. Topics discussed include foreign policy outreach of Pakistan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, and Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh.

The author explains the necessity for the administration of U.S. President Joseph Biden to rewrite a Pakistani foreign policy. Topics discussed include the importance of the strategic concerns of Pakistan to the U.S. according to Biden, key role of Pakistan in achieving long-lasting peace and security in Afghanistan, and the significance of an announcement made by the U.S. State Department that Jammu and Kashmir is still a disputed territory between India and Pakistan.

The article explains the danger posed by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideology for the minorities and global peace. Topics discussed include the emphasis of RSS mainstream leaders on the fact that Indian Muslims were once Hindus and forcefully converted to Islam, implication of the revocation of the special status of Kashmir for its residents, Pakistan sovereignty and Muslims in India and Bangladesh, and the challenge posed by the Indian presence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan to Pakistan.

The article trace the development of the U.S.-India strategic bilateralism. Topics discussed include the importance of connection with the U.S. to the effort of India to acquire regional hegemonic status in South Asia, preference of the U.S. to strengthen its connection with India in the India-Pakistan hostility, and the role of the threat posed by China in the shift in U.S.-India strategic bilateralism.

The author offers observation on relationship between India and Pakistan. Topics discussed include impact of the Kashmir dispute between both countries on Kashmiris on both the sides of the Line of Control, analysis on what respective national interests has the politics of traditionalism served, and reason Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi believes that conditions are not conducive for talks.

The author comments on the conflict between Pakistan and India concerning Kashmir. Topics discussed include problem facing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, anti-China and anti-Pakistan campaign of the administration of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and statement from Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah about Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Aksai Chin.

The article offers information on the role played by the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) in the battle of 1965 between India and Pakistan. It states that relentless battering by the PAF had left the Indian Air Force (IAF) mauled in the battle for air superiority. It mentions that having suffered several times more aircraft losses at the hands of an air force that was much smaller, the IAF felt immense distraught.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the military relations between the Indian Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force. The struggles of India in the production of light combat aircrafts (LCAs) are highlighted. A detailed comparison of the Indian and Pakistan Air Force by an Indian defense analyst is provided.

The article offers information on a webinar held on July 9, 2020 on "India china Standoff at ladakh and its Impact on Kashmir" under the auspices of Karachi council of foreign relations (Kcfr) in Pakistan. Prominent speakers were Sardar Masood Khan , Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed and ambassador Mustafa Kamal Kazi.

The article focuses on the response of United Nations Military Observer Group In India & Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to the interview of Lieutenant General B.S. Raju of the Indian Army who alleged that Pakistan is infiltrating COVID-19-affected individuals into Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K). It mentions "Jammu and Kashmir reorganization order 2020" to settle non- Kashmiris in IOJ&K by changing the domicile laws.

The article focuses on the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had composed the U.S. President Donald Trump's visit as a demonstration of India's rising stature on the world stage. It mentions the view of Trump that his administration is hopeful for reduced tensions and greater stability between Pakistan and India; and also the Modi government is now reluctantly easing the draconian curbs after drawing flak from the international community.

The article provides an overview of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It mentions that eastern command, Lt. Gen Niazi had intended to fight delaying actions so as to trade space for time, and then fall back to fortresses in important border towns. It also mentions that more pragmatic plan would have focused on embroiling the invading Indian forces in delaying actions from a forward defensive posture.

The article focuses on the global vision of peace and its relevance to the nuclearized subcontinent in which the presence of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan considers as the main hurdle in the way of generating peace in South Asia. It mentions the generating of diplomatic cooperation and enhancement of people to people contact with India.

The article discusses several issues regarding the territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir, as of November 2019. Topics include India government's move to scrap the autonomy articles of Kashmir in the Indian Constitution, the issue on Kashmir's partition and the existence of Pakistan and Pakistan's ideological reasons to insist that the whole of Kashmir should belong to Pakistan. It cites Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's move to address the conflict.

The article discusses the significance of the 74th regular session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for South Asian politics in which two nuclear weapon states, namely India and Pakistan, are fighting over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Topics include U.S. President Donald Trump's intention for resolving the territorial dispute, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's participation in the session and the political implications of the bilateral meetings between U.S. and India.