Member National Assembly and Director General Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad (SSII) Dr. Shireen M. Mazari on Friday said that the next few weeks would witness a progress on talks with the Taliban. She pointed out, “the government has to deal with multiple layers of terrorism and hence a progressive strategy for talks has to be…
China’s Economic Ascend On September 12, 2013 the Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad (SSII) held a roundtable discussion on “China’s Economic Ascend.” The discussion highlighted China’s economic future and confidence of the Chinese leadership to sustain a high-level of economic growth in future with readjusting the macroeconomic policies. Mr. Fazal-ur-Rahman, Director of the Institute, made a comprehensive…
PRESS RELEASE: 17 April 2013 H. E. Liu Jian, Ambassador of China inaugurated the China Hall established at the newly-founded Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad this afternoon. Dr Shireen Mazari, Director General and Mr Fazal ur Rehman Director welcomed the Chinese ambassador and Dr Mazari thanked the Chinese Ambassador for his gift of books and the…
PRESS RELEASE – 14th March 2013 SSII, a new private institute with Dr Mazari as its CEO/DG, held a public talk today on Iran’s Nuclear Programme by Tariq Rauf, former Head of Verification and Security Policy IAEA. Dr Maleeha Lodhi chaired the meeting. Rauf separated the political from the technical issues because the former he…
12th March 2013 Chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday accused the US of ‘double-standards’ in dealing with nuclear proliferation and the signing of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal “in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)”. He was speaking as the chief guest at the Islamabad-based Strategic Studies Institute’s…
The News International Thursday, August 30, 2012 Islamabad – Are bilateral relations between Pakistan and India at a stage where New Delhi would be open to cooperation with Islamabad in the field of civil nuclear programme? While there is little will to cooperate and understand even less sensitive issues, the Strategic Technology Resources (STR) has invited…
Asian Powers – traditionally would refer to powers located in Asia itself – but in today’s international strategic milieu one has to also consider global powers and extra-regional powers who may be located outside of Asia but have a major presence in this continent and impact the politics of the region.
The OIC Secretary General recently made a reference to the possibility of an OIC peacekeeping architecture. The OIC may finally be getting something right in its new activism since even before anything substantive has happened, many external actors are already expressing their opposition covertly –often using NGOs within Pakistan which is leading this proactivism.
Two caveats to the notion of South Asia as a distinct sub region anymore. First, with the introduction of MRBMs and IRBMs by the countries of the region – and the ICBM programme of India (See slides), one cannot really talk of South Asia as a distinct region. Second, post-9/11 US forces in Central Asia,…
While 9/11 is seen as having altered the strategic dynamics of South Asia in a most stark fashion, the reality is that these dynamics began altering before 9/11 and 9/11 accentuated them. So let us identify some of the major trends coming to the fore with the end of bipolarity around the South Asian region and which have now become accentuated in the wake of 9/11.