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Pakistan Resolution Day | 23rd March 🇵🇰 On this historic day, we commemorate the Pakistan Resolution of 1940, a defining moment that paved the way for the creation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. May Allah ﷻ bless Pakistan with unity, peace, and success. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Zindabad! #PakistanResolutionDay #23rdMarch

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🌍SVI Analysis | “The deal has been framed as a civil nuclear agreement intended to back India’s growing energy demand. The issue may not be the direct diversion of Canadian uranium into nuclear usable material, but given India’s record regarding the conversion of peaceful nuclear technology, this deal will directly enhance the potential of vertical proliferation in India. In simple terms, increased uranium imports from Canada directly expand India’s capacity for nuclear weapons production”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Associate Sana Ahmed 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/how-is-canada-… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “While New Delhi will make the most out of its cooperation with Israel, particularly in defense and technology, however, at the same time, it will preserve sufficient diplomatic flexibility to navigate West Asia’s complex geopolitical landscape. In this sense, India’s Israel policy will likely remain defined not by unconditional alignment, but by a calibrated blend of strategic partnership and strategic hedging”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Associate Maryam Raashed 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/indias-israel-… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “Recently, the Indian Navy (IN) has invested heavily in acquiring platforms for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), including shallow-water aircraft, frigates and destroyers, helicopters, and submarines. Inducting ASW platforms at such a pace indicates an offensive mindset; IN wants to ensure its operational freedom while limiting the options for the adversary. ✍ Penned down by SVI Research Officer Saif-ul-Haq 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/indias-new-off… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “The push by India towards potential creation of a dedicated rocket force may stem from arduous reality: air parity. In both the 2019 and 2025 escalation, India suffered the loss of fighter aircraft, underlining that even a technologically larger and well-equipped air force faces unacceptable risks when operating in highly contested air environments. During the 2025 crises, Pakistan’s ability to down several Indian fighters demonstrated that the tradeoff for using multi-million dollar jets, potential loss of pilots, to deliver payloads is increasingly becoming an unaffordable gamble. This isn’t to say that air forces have become redundant; the May 2025 conflict suggests that drones may play a more active role in future escalation. However, in the South Asian context, a rocket force may become the most powerful piece of puzzle". ✍ Penned down by SVI Research Associate Shamil Abdullah Saleh 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/in-the-era-of-… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstite

🌍 SVI Analysis | “Unlike traditional air defense systems, which are mainly siloed systems, contemporary IADS allow for networked detection, tracking, engagement, and command and control functions. Countries are now focusing on IADS not only as layered air defense systems but also as key enablers of deterrence, resilience, and strategic autonomy against multi-vector threats”. ✍ Penned down by SVI Research Associate Hammad Waleed 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/from-air-super… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “Iran’s missile and drone strikes on Gulf states during the 2026 escalation exposed the fragility of the region’s security architecture. While Gulf countries sought to avoid the conflict, the presence of U.S. military bases on their soil made them targets, challenging long-standing assumptions about alliance-based security and forcing them to reconsider greater strategic self-reliance”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Sidra Shoukat 🔗 Read More: thesvi.org/collateral-all… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “Nuclear energy is witnessing a global revival as rising electricity demand, climate commitments, and energy security concerns push governments and industries to reconsider its role in the energy transition. While innovations such as small modular reactors promise flexibility and lower costs, challenges, including high capital investment, waste management, and safety, remain central to the debate over nuclear power’s future. The upcoming Nuclear Energy Summit 2026 in France offers a timely opportunity to align policy ambitions with practical implementations. As states, industry leaders, and financial institutions convene, the focus must shift from abstract commitments to concrete pathways for deployment, financing, and good governance”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Sidra Shoukat 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/from-stagnatio… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “The International AI Safety Report 2026 provides a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities and associated risks, contributing to global discussions on governance and safety. While it identifies technical, malicious, and systemic risks, it also highlights significant challenges in translating these assessments into binding governance mechanisms. Industry and state responses, including those by leading AI developers and the U.S. government, illustrate the complexity of aligning innovation, strategic interests, and coordinated international safety measures. In this divergence lies the deeper drama: AI safety is no longer merely a technical conversation. It is a contest over who writes the rules of the next industrial epoch. The report contains valuable lessons for Pakistan to strengthen its AI capabilities, governance mechanisms and further optimize its socio-industrial development”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Associate Hammad Waleed 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/the-internatio… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍SVI Analysis | “In early February 2026, US Under Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno claimed China conducted a nuclear test on 22 June 2020 and used 'decoupling' to reduce detectability. The CTBTO publicly rejected the claim, saying its network detected no event consistent with a nuclear weapon test at that time. To make sure no such testing takes place, Washington and Beijing should clarify their positions on 'zero-yield' practices and expand transparency around subcritical experiments – experiments that do not produce a nuclear blast – and related safety activities. Clearer definitions reduce room for political manipulation. The world after 5 February 2026 will reward clarity over insinuation. If allegations of secret tests become a routine instrument of rivalry, the outcome will not be stronger arms control. It will be a lower threshold for renewed testing and a shorter path to an uncontrolled three-way arms race. If leaders argue that hidden testing poses a serious threat, they should be prepared to strengthen the legal and institutional machinery that makes cheating harder to conceal”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Syeda Saba Batool 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/us-accusations… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍SVI Analysis | “Iran chose the Conference of Disarmament to send a clear message: nuclear rights under the NPT are non-negotiable, and coercion will not define diplomacy. The timing and platform choice by Iran’s Foreign Minister for the address indicate strategic signaling to both domestic and international audiences”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Saif-ul-Haq 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/irans-diplomac… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍 SVI Analysis | “The doctrine of carpet-bombing has been replaced by the synergy and surgical precision of cyber warfare, directed energy technologies and limited kinetic action, primarily because these tools offer a path to achieving the goal without the catastrophic long-term costs of physical destruction. While previously the warfare focused on the total annihilation of an adversary’s physical infrastructure, the contemporary strategy prioritizes containment. As demonstrated, the cyber-induced blackouts and directed energy weapons can paralyze a nation’s Command-and-Control systems while ensuring that the physical state apparatus remains intact”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Akash Shah 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/the-trinity-of… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

Call For Papers | Don't miss the deadlines. SVI's Journal of Security & Strategic Analyses (JSSA) is accepting submissions for its Summer 2026 Issue. Deadline is April 01, 2026. JSSA is HEC-recognized, double-blind peer-reviewed, bi-annual research journal with a focus on contemporary issues of international security, nuclear deterrence, emerging technologies and much more. For Submission Guidelines: jssa.thesvi.org/index.php/ojs/… Submit your Research Articles via: jssa.thesvi.org/index.php/ojs/… Past Issues: jssa.thesvi.org/index.php/ojs/… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute #Callforpapers #Journal #Hecrecognized

🌍 SVI Analysis | “The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy reflects a recalibration of American power shaped by economic constraints and strategic overstretch, presenting itself as a strategy of restraint and realism while effectively transferring greater costs and risks to allies. By prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, downgrading the Middle East, and urging Europe to assume primary responsibility for its own security, Washington narrows its global commitments without relinquishing primacy. In the Indo-Pacific, deterrence against China is framed as a collective effort, placing frontline responsibilities on regional partners while the United States focuses on high-end enablers. This approach preserves U.S. strategic influence but simultaneously exposes partners to heightened risks, raising questions about alliance confidence, burden sharing, and the long-term credibility of American leadership”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Sidra Shoukat 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/americas-manag… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍SVI Analysis | “If it expires, it expires.’ The United States (US) President Donald Trump’s statement became true as the last guardrails on the world’s largest nuclear arsenals are gone. With the expiration of the New START treaty, the last legally binding limits on the US and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals have disappeared, leaving the global nuclear order increasingly defined by uncertainty and anxiety rather than restraint. The immediate consequence is not an automatic arms race, but the removal of constraints that had long shaped planning assumptions, reduced worst-case calculations, and dampened escalation incentives between the two largest nuclear powers”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Officer Syeda Saba Batool 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/if-it-expires-… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

🌍SVI Analysis | “The article tries to analyze the looming arms control vacuum in the recent U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) 2026. The document otherwise focuses on deterrence, modernization and great-power competition. This disconnect reveals a fatal blind spot in the U.S. approach to arms control and defense planning at a time when it is getting challenging to maintain strategic stability globally. Insecurities are at an all-time high and the trust on security guarantors is eroding. Where principle architects of liberal treaties such as the NEW START, seems to be foregoing the sanctity of international treaties in order to entice China slowly, on an equal footing. The credibility of competent leadership in the strategic competition depends not only on major states but also on the ability of managing the competition responsibly”. ✍Penned down by SVI Research Fellow Rida Anwar 🔗Read More: thesvi.org/the-u-s-nation… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute

Ramadan Kareem 2026 🌙

📝 SVI RESEARCH PUBLICATION | ✍️ SVI Researcher Hamdan Khan has published a research paper titled "Deciphering Strategic Stability in the Age of Speed: Hypersonic Weapons in South Asia”. The paper has been published in Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue, BTTN Journal. 🔗Read here: bttn.org.pk/ojs/index.php/… #SVI #StrategicVisionInstitute