With one of the most important cross-border water-sharing treaties ever signed still on hold, what are the chances that Islamabad and New Delhi open talks on the Indus Waters Treaty, and what forum could help bring about a new diplomatic dialogue?

Despite chronic instability, Pakistan continues to command the attention of major powers across Asia and the Gulf. Geography explains part of this relevance, but so does the state’s ability to manage overlapping external interests.

With a reported range of 400 km, China’s PL-17 air-to-air missile puts enemy AWACS and ISR platforms in play, potentially upending longstanding military certainties across the Indo-Pacific.

After years of diplomatic frost, the US–Pakistan relationship is warming again — not through rhetoric, but through energy, technology, and minerals — the currency of modern geopolitics.

Pakistan has been able to thread the needle between two superpowers despite cascading political and economic crisis at home. Here’s how Islamabad is pulling it off.

Escalating frictions with Washington risk undermining India’s efforts to expand its arms exports.

The ongoing rift in US-India relations has shed light on some longstanding contradictions in the relationship, and while the two sides may still yet find common ground, the road to resolution will surely be a rocky one.

Narratives of a ‘greater India,’ or civilizational state reaching back thousands of years have paid dividends in domestic Indian politics. But they’re also unnerving India’s neighbors and creating new headaches for New Delhi’s regional engagement in South Asia.

Examining the geopolitical stakes and wider ramifications of the latest border war between India and Pakistan.

The KP Mines and Minerals Bill reflects a strategic shift in Pakistan’s economic governance, one where Islamabad deepens involvement in provincial extraction under a banner of modernization. But the policy is not without its risks.

The intermediate-range, nuclear-capable Agni-IV missile test is one of a number of recent moves by New Delhi to improve India’s nuclear deterrence.

The INS Arighaat, the Indian Navy’s latest nuclear submarine, is a step toward creating a credible multifaceted nuclear deterrence, but there’s still work to do.

Examining the economic and security imperatives underpinning China’s ongoing support, notably in the maritime domain, for longtime ally Pakistan.

Pakistan’s general election could be highly consequential in determining the character of many of the country’s most important foreign relations.

Why has one of India’s most wanted terrorists suddenly reappeared after a 17-year absence?

From its birth, the state of Pakistan has always been a work in process.

President Trump appears to have backed off on Kashmir in order to insulate a deepening bilateral relationship with India.

A sudden string of escalations in Kashmir risks a dangerous new conflict between South Asia’s two nuclear-armed states.

A variety of shared geopolitical interests will bring New Delhi and Washington closer together in the year to come.

Pakistan's state institutions have long nurtured religious fundamentalism, but sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost.