Shireen M Mazari

Shireen M Mazari

  • Final nail in NPT coffin

    Final nail in NPT coffin

    NPT was negotiated during 1960s, opened for signatures in July 1968 and came into force in March 1970

  • NFU to cold start to preemption

    NFU to cold start to preemption

    Other signalling was also ignored as India began shifting its doctrines as it acquired multi-domain war-fighting capabilities

  • Enough is enough

    From shock to blame-games, politicians and media in the US and Nato states are now seeking scapegoats for the Afghan debacle where they saw the...

  • India’s nuclear recklessness

    Part IISo the latest report of uranium being sold and smuggled out of India is not new. Why the international community has chosen to turn a blind...

  • India’s nuclear recklessness - Part I

    Within one month two stories of illegal possession and sale of uranium being caught by Indian police have surfaced. Of course, any attempt to...

  • The ‘deal of the century’

    Despite its often pretentious moralistic language, a careful reading of the Trump Plan for Palestine and Israel is nothing short of creating for the...

  • Post-9/11: unilateralism v international law

    Post-9/11, the world is witnessing increasing violations of international law, especially International Human Rights Law and International...

  • Annexation of Kashmir and India’s nuclear threat

    Annexation of Kashmir and India’s nuclear threat

    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...

  • The changing parameters of external policies

    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...

  • Hybrid warfare and centre of gravity

    Hybrid warfare and centre of gravity

    This year , we heard the word ‘hybrid warfare’ ad nauseum within Pakistan and also in many Western strategic and leadership circles – as if...

  • Women in conflict areas: the case of Kashmir

    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...

  • The minefield that is human rights

    The human rights ministry was not given much attention or focus in the past and other ministries poached on its domain with impunity. When the PM...

  • From rhetoric to conflict resolution

    The inadequate response on the part of the state and government on Kashmir in the wake of the first-ever report by the Office of the UN High...

  • Correcting inadequate structures and policy voids

    Correcting inadequate structures and policy voids

    Pakistan gets placed on the Financial Action Task Force Grey List. The US threatens Pakistan on multiple counts but we remain silent. India...

  • Beyond past errors

    That the government of Pakistan failed to make its case against provisional measures at the International Court of Justice hearing on Kulbhushan...

  • A cruel April

    “April is the cruellest month” is how T S Eliot began his poem ‘The Waste Land’. For Pakistan it has been a rollercoaster of...

  • Autocratic rulers

    The Hussain Haqqani article admitting to his issuing unlimited visas to US Special Ops, CIA and all manner of black ops personnel without going...

  • A holistic approach to counterterrorism

    The recent spate of terrorist attacks across the country has brought into question the National Action Plan and the need for military courts. After...

  • Trump: more of the same and worse

    Our civil and military leaderships’ dream of an intimacy with the US has been as steadfast over decades as the US leaders’ refusal to...

  • 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 Pakistan in particular – what...