Sitara Noor

  • Global nuclear disorder

    The global nuclear order that was created as part of the post-war system and selfishly guarded against the shockwaves of the cold war is on the...

  • Deja-vu moments

    Pakistan is once again at the receiving end of a familiar and expected barrage of criticism from the United States’ political and military...

  • Squaring the circle in Vienna

    The negotiations in the Austrian capital Vienna to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – or the Iran nuclear deal – seem to have...

  • Democratising the debate

    The Islamabad Security Dialogue has stirred a dynamic debate on the country’s future security outlook. The dialogue hosted by the National...

  • Standoff in the Himalayas

    The latest military standoff between China and India at the Line of Actual Control in the Eastern Ladakh and Sikkim region is one of the most...

  • Nuclear signalling

    At the 2017 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, a biennial gathering of nuclear experts in Washington DC, Vipin Narang, a US-based...

  • CTBT: the unfinished agenda

    On June 13, 2016, the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization organised a ministerial meeting to mark the...

  • CBM fatigue

    India and Pakistan regularly exchange a list of respective nuclear facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear...