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DR SHIREEN M MAZARI founded the Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad Pvt (SSII) – a private research centre in January 2013 and served as its Director General until August 2018. She is currently the Federal Minister for Human Rights. Between August 2000 and May 2008 Dr Mazari served as the Director General of the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISSI). Her previous professional assignments include: Consultant on Defence and Security, 1999-2000; Editor-in Chief and Publisher of PULSE Weekly (1993-1999); Chairperson/Associate Professor, Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (1988-1993); Guest lecturer, National Defence College, Islamabad. While at Quaid-i-Azam University, Dr Mazari was elected as Secretary and then President of the Academic Staff Association and in these capacities she also served as Secretary and President of the Federation of All Pakistan University Academic Staff Associations (FAPUASA). Dr. Mazari has been a regular columnist for the main English dailies of Pakistan and was Editor of The Nation – a leading English Daily, from 2009 to 2010. She has written extensively on issues of defence and security. Dr. Mazari has also authored a book titled “The Kargil Conflict 1999: Separating Fact from Fiction”. The book is a ground breaking study of the Kargil Conflict from a Pakistani perspective.
Despite its often pretentious moralistic language, a careful reading of the Trump Plan for Palestine and Israel is nothing short of creating for the Palestinian…
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During the BJP election campaign, in an elections rally, Narendra Modi asked, in the context of nuclear weapons: “What do we have then? Have we kept our…
As warfare has altered over the decades with the shifting of the ‘centre of gravity’ and the notion of the cold war evolving into Hybrid…
By Shireen M Mazari Background The Kashmir conflict has once again come centre stage in the aftermath of the continuing violence being perpetrated by the…
This year (2018), we heard the word ‘hybrid warfare’ ad nauseum within Pakistan and also in many Western strategic and leadership circles – as if…
UN Women is all set to mark 16 days of activism against gender-based violence but unfortunately it has failed to include violence against women in…
By Dr. Shireen M Mazari The inadequate response on the part of the state and government (both the previous PML-N government and the caretaker) on…
by Dr Shireen M Mazari Pakistan gets placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey List. The US threatens Pakistan on multiple counts but…
By Dr Shireen M Mazari At the 2017 EU Non Proliferation and Disarmament Conference in Brussels on 12-13 December 2017, the same arguments put forward…
by Amina Afzal Director Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad (SSII) In April 2016, India took a significant step towards completing its nuclear triad with the test of its…
By: Dr. Shireen Mazari & Imaan Mazari Hazir That the government of Pakistan failed to make its case against provisional measures at the International Court of…
By Dr.Shireen Mazari The Hussain Haqqani article admitting to his issuing unlimited visas to US Special Ops, CIA and all manner of black ops personnel…
By Dr Shireen Mazari The recent spate of terrorist attacks across the country has brought into question the National Action Plan (NAP) and the need…
By Dr. Shireen Mazari Our civil and military leaderships’ dream of an intimacy with the US has been as steadfast over decades as the US…
As the Year Ends Being my last column of 2016, the temptation is there to pontificate on the state of the world in general and…
BY Dr.Shireen Mazari India’s Modi and his BJP government continue their aggressive designs against Pakistan. Beginning with sporadic attacks along the Line of Control (LoC)…
Overwhelmed by Corruption By Dr Shireen Mazari [dropcap]C[/dropcap]orruption revealed weakens those who stand exposed, which is why the Panama Papers have seen leaders either defend…
By Dr. Shireen M Mazari The Kashmir dispute as it has come to the fore once again has also shown the limitations of the traditional…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter watching the MQM’s drama of the abusive absurd, the troubling question was: have we become a joke as a nation and state? From the…
by Dr. Shireen Mazari When will we, as a nation and a state, stop being the world’s favourite whipping boy and rediscover our dignity and self-respect?…
By Shireen Mazari Had the latest Modi statement on Pakistan not coincided with Sartaj Aziz’s attempted redemption-seeking press briefing with journalists, after the rather visible…
A highly personalised and autocratic mode of governing has allowed critical issues confronting the nation to either be neglected or decision-making shifted away from the…
While the national agenda has been overwhelmed with the Panama leaks, and rightly so given the enormity of the revelations relating to our PM’s family,…
Shock after shock By Dr. Shireen M Mazari It all began well last week with a senior RAW operative, Kulbhoshan Yadev, being nabbed in Balochistan…
Author: Dr. Shireen Mazari After years of vitriol, when the Iran nuclear agreement was operationalised there was a routine quietness about it that belied the…
By: Dr. Shireen Mazari The year 2015 has been a defining year in terms of global strategic developments and shifting alliances. Perhaps, more clearly than…
Post the Paris attacks, one has watched with trepidation western states continue down the path that began post-9/11 – of bombing ostensibly the enemy on…
By Dr.Shireen M Mazari Every time there is an impending US visit by a Pakistani leader, or a visit by any US politician, bureaucrat or…
Author: Dr.Shireen M Mazari With an increasingly public persona of the COAS, many are referring to a ‘soft’ coup having taken place – some gleefully,…
So what has gone wrong? There we were patting ourselves on the back for successfully brokering talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban when…
By Dr. Shireen M Mazari Is what is happening in the Arab World and in our region a set of coincidental events? Does the Indo-US…
Discrimination and global nuclear stability Shireen M. Mazari To begin with, it is a fallacy that arms control will eventually lead to disarmament. While the…
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…
Asian Powers – traditionally would refer to powers located in Asia itself – but in today’s international strategic milieu one has to also consider global…
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…
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…
As 2006 comes to a close, the dye has already been cast for the major conflicts that will dominate the New Year. Just when one…
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…
Muharram in Pakistan is a most stark reminder of the plight of Muslims today. Here we are, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and some…
