Colonel Imran Hassan and Antoine Levesques discuss arms control in South Asia from a Pakistani perspective. Colonel Hassan makes the case for arms control and nuclear restraint in South Asia in the context of rising global challenges to both.
Dear General,
We the families of serving and retired personnel of the armed forces stand steadfast with our soldiers, our army. No, we are not scared; yes, we are praying for the safety of our men. But we need to know about what happened in Galwan Valley. I do understand there are reasons why...
Strategic instabilities in South Asia and Pakistan’s nuclear policy
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 1300-1400 hrs IISS Webinar
Speaker: Colonel Imran Hassan, Visiting Research Fellow for South Asia (Strategic Affairs), IISS; Deputy Director (Research), Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs Branch of the...
In this webinar, Colonel Imran Hassan explored today’s strategic environment in South Asia from a Pakistani perspective. There are no substantial arms-control measures in place between India and Pakistan; existing confidence-building measures are ageing. India and Pakistan seek space to use...
AFTER 1962 Indo-China War a very perceptive Indian Brigadier S.K Dalvi had written
a book “Himalayan Blunder” with a very onomatopoeic title to warn the world of the Indian obduracy and naiveté. The book was an ideal primer for someone who wanted to understand the sheer silliness of strategic...
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) recently issued a report titled “Enough is Enough: Global Nuclear Weapons Spending 2019”. The report questions the annual nuclear spending of US $73 billion by the nine nuclear armed states, urging them to give up their nuclear weapons...
The year 1998 was historic and fateful for Pakistan and South Asia. On the 28th and 30th of May in 1998, Pakistan successfully conducted six nuclear explosions and marked the day as “Youm-i-Takbeer”/ “Day of Greatness.”
It was a strategic response to India’s nuclear tests of ‘Operation Shakti’...
When the first shouted word of Pakistan’s nuclear tests were heard in the Indian Parliament on May 28, 1998, a communist leader, Somnath Chatterjee, interrupted a speech condemning India’s tests and turned directly to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the nationalist leader who had approved...
The Hindu ideology has transformed into the crude discourses of anti-Muslim platitudes and therefore, existing language of local stereotypes in India has been reinforced with modern offensive terms of intolerance especially against minorities. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century...
May 28th is a day of pride (Yom-e-Taqbeer) for Pakistan that placed it as a member of an exclusive club of less than ten states. 28 May, 1998 is the day when Pakistan’s nuclear tests readjusted the regional balance of power. The zealous celebrations of this day signify commendable efforts that...
Advocating the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Stephen Hawking once said, “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.”
Nuclear technology can play an important role in socio-economic...
“Customs detains Karachi-bound ship in Gujarat: Report”
February 3, 2020, the tragic day of sheer propaganda where India claimed Ship was carrying a dual-use autoclave in it. Indian customs officials detained a ship bearing a flag of Hong Kong and bound for Port Qasim in Karachi. The officials...