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Divergent Minds

Khurram Khan “I was staying on 4 October 1954 at a hotel in London …I was pacing up and down the room when I said to myself: Let me put down my ideas in a military fashion: what is wrong with the country and what can be done to put things right[1]”. This is how […]

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Strategic Brief - September 6, 2026
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CPEC SECURITY CHALLENGES, THREATS & IMPACT.

Kashif Bangash As part of efforts to revive and facilitate China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) activities in Pakistan and strengthen coordination with Chinese personnel, the KP Police has introduced Chinese language training for selected security personnel assigned to protect Chinese nationals and strategic development projects. The first batch of 20 Special Security Unit (SSU) personnel successfully […]

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Strategic Brief - August 25, 2026
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From Rent-Seeking to Productive Demand: Rethinking Pakistan’s Economic Dilemma

Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP Introduction Pakistan’s recurring economic crises are usually diagnosed the same way: too little national savings, too little exported output, too much consumption, and too much debt. The prescribed remedy, repeated across successive IMF programmes, is a familiar cycle — borrow, stabilise, impose austerity, recover briefly, and borrow again. By March 2026, […]

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Strategic Brief - July 28, 2026
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Policy Percolations: Pakistaan’s Wheat Supply Chain

Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP

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Strategic Brief - May 26, 2026
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OSINT- 1-15 May 2026

Asif Iqbal INTEL NEWS Compiled, researched & collated by @sif Iqb@l I.  UNITED STATES – INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Unprecedented Havana Meeting In a highly unusual and closely watched diplomatic manoeuvre, CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Havana on 14 May 2026 to meet senior Cuban officials – the first such visit by a […]

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Strategic Brief - April 16, 2026
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TO BRINK AND BACK!

Lt.Gen. Asad Durrani (r) The author is former Director General ISI.

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Strategic Brief - April 12, 2026
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Defining Display of National Leadership

Tariq Lodhi

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Strategic Brief - April 9, 2026
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“Stone Age” — Strategic Messaging Behind President Donald Trump’s Warning

Kashif Bangash While the ceasefire is in place, retrospectively looking at the “stone age” warning issued by President Donald Trump in his address to the nation, it carried a far deeper strategic message than a simple threat directed at Iran. While on the surface it appeared as a warning of overwhelming military force, in reality […]

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Strategic Brief - January 28, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence and the Changing Face of Organizations

Junaid Riaz For most of the twentieth century, organizational change was driven largely by human effort, managerial decisions, and institutional policies. New systems were introduced slowly, and major transformations often took years to take effect. In recent decades, however, a new force has begun to reshape organizations in a more profound way: Artificial Intelligence (AI). […]

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Strategic Brief - November 19, 2025
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From Oversight to Servility

Lt.Gen (r) Asad Durrani In the late 1950s, Mao Zedong’s books were available on the streets of Anarkali fortwo rupees a piece. Maybe that’s the reason some of us, then students in the nearbyGovernment College, were tempted to buy them. No idea why his famous red bookdid not make much impression on me, but the […]

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