Muhammad Usama Khalid

This reflects the firm, resolute, & unwavering leadership & commitment expected of Prof. Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal, Vice Chancellor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. No academic disruption will be tolerated. The culture of strikes and the forceful closure at QAU has to end. #QAU

So rightly pointed out... India’s missile program is no longer defensive, it is overtly destabilizing. The DRDO’s Agni-VI test announcement reinforces clear evidence of an unchecked strategic buildup that threatens not just regional balance, but global stability.

7/7 📍The key question is; 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆?? #NuclearRisk #SouthAsiaCrisis #West #StrategicAlert

7/7 📍 #OperationSindoor launched in a nuclear South Asia by India was sheer irrationality and recklessness which is proof of how #Modi Regime can put the lives of hundreds of millions at risk for narrow ideological and political ambitions.

6/7 📍With a right wing #Hindutva driven, reckless, fascist regime at the helm, is India now emerging as a global threat? #Modi #Hindutva #GlobalRisk

4/7 📍In the garb of regional threats, is India cloaking a sinister #threat where #India itself becomes a threat to most of the #world? #Geopolitics #SecurityConcerns

5/7 📍US and Soviet nuclear missiles were developed against a mutual threat, #Pakistan developed nuclear capability against specific Indian nuclear threat, why is India developing a 12000 km nuclear capable ICBM? Who are they threatening and what is their target? #Deterrence

3/7 The critical questions are: 📍Who is Agni-VI threatening? China and Pakistan are already covered by their existing arsenal. #SouthAsia #NuclearPolicy

2/7 This kind of threat to the US/ West came from erstwhile Soviet Union and then from Russia and China. India is the latest threat that can deliver a nuclear weapon all the way to the US. #GlobalSecurity #StrategicStability #NuclearThreat

‼️‼️𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃‼️‼️ 1/7 #DRDO Chairman says India is ready to test its nuclear capable #ICBM #AgniVI with ranges estimated up to 12000 km carrying multiple warheads. With these ranges India has the capability to reach not just China, Middle East & Europe but also US and Canada.

Nuclear deterrence remains the “ultimate shield”—not for fighting wars, but preventing them. By ensuring credible retaliation, states aim to avoid catastrophic conflict, even as debates over its ethics and limits continue. Read my oped here on this...👇🏻 strafasia.com/nuclear-deterr…

Disarmament Commitments & Strategic Realities | Key Takeaways from ED BTTN, Dr. Zafar Khan's talk at the CISS AJK Webinar: 27 April 2026 ▫️When the NPT was signed in 1968, the P-5 nuclear powers committed to eventual disarmament. Over 50 years later, that promise remains unfulfilled. The 1995 indefinite extension of the NPT changed nothing, and harsh strategic realities continue to overshadow disarmament ideals. ▫️Only 9 states possess nuclear weapons today — fewer than feared. But this “stability” came at a cost. The US extended nuclear umbrellas to allies to discourage independent arsenals, while states like Israel conducted preventive strikes on Iraq, Syria, and Iran to eliminate potential rivals. Israel itself holds the region’s only nuclear arsenal while blocking a Middle East Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. A key reason NPT Review Conferences keep failing. ▫️The NPT’s greatest weakness? It cannot prevent nuclear states from threatening non-nuclear signatories. ▫️The US and Russia alone hold ~90% of global nuclear forces. Meanwhile, all major nuclear states, far from disarming, are actively modernizing and expanding their arsenals. ▫️The ongoing NPT Review Conference faces long-standing deadlocks: the Middle East WMD-Free Zone, meaningful disarmament timelines, and structural discrimination between nuclear haves and have-nots. What the regime urgently needs is universality over selectivity. Equity, transparency, restraint, and non-discrimination must replace the double standards that are hollowing out the NPT from within. #NPT #ReviewConference #Nuclear

NEW: The U.S. is STILL awaiting confirmation about whether or not Iran will attend peace talks in Pakistan as the hours tick down on the ceasefire. @MattFinnFNC reports on the latest. | @AmericaRpts

Ouch! 😂

Pakistan Navy told us seven months ago about its Missile capabilities. Today Pakistan Navy successfully fired a Cruise Missile. 👍🇵🇰

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Natalie A. Baker called on Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar @MIshaqDar50 today. Discussions covered recent regional developments. DPM/FM underscored Pakistan’s consistent emphasis on dialogue and diplomacy as the only viable means to address challenges and achieve lasting regional peace and stability. He stressed the need for engagement between the United States and Iran, urged both sides to consider extending the ceasefire, and to give dialogue and diplomacy a chance. Cd’A Baker conveyed U.S. appreciation for Pakistan’s constructive and positive role in promoting regional peace and facilitating dialogue.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari says “the entire world is supporting these negotiations, including us, and we are supporting our brothers in Pakistan.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/0v16yj

“Dynamics of NSG Membership Bid of India and Pakistan” Dr. Zafar Khan, Executive Director, BTTN, attended and delivered a talk on the “Dynamics of NSG Membership Bid of India and Pakistan” at the One-Day Webinar titled “NSG Waiver for India: Implications for South Asia and Non-Proliferation Regime” held on 20 April 2026. The central argument of his talk was that although the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was created in 1975 in response to the 1974 Indian nuclear test, it is surprising to observe that even the NSG's revised guidelines do not mention India directly/ specifically, whose nuclear weapon test became the reason for the creation of the NSG in the first place. One may question why the NSG hides the fact of its origin when it exempted the same nuclear weapons state, India, with a special waiver, which is neither a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nor the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and conducted more nuclear weapons tests in May 1998. Also, when India does not follow up on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) comprehensive safeguards despite signing the IAEA's Additional Protocols. He concluded that the NSG (a cartel group), if it is to formalize itself into treaty status, must increase its membership by allowing others to join the NSG on a “structurally reformed- criterion-based”, rather than “country-specific”, approach. Currently, it has 48 members. Serbia was the last country to join the NSG in 2013. An “exception” and “special waiver” to one against the other is a fraught option that may not only undermine nonproliferation regimes, including the NSG, but also intensify the arms race, crisis instability, and the risk of escalation between potential rivals. Therefore, the NSG needs to follow the imperatives of non-discrimination, equality, and transparency moving forward. #NSG #IAEA #SouthAsia #Pakistan #India

When your father was assassinated he was out of Lahore, returned and went straight to his home. Consoled and supported the family and pursued the case as CM Punjab. He had the same inches then as well. If you can’t value who stood by you in tough times, at least don’t be mean.

Not only Trump but other global powers need to start worrying about India’s growing conventional and nuclear forces, bolstered by the sophisticated delivery systems it has been developing more recently. This is not security. This is prestige, power projection, and escalation dominance, fraught with weaknesses and consequences for South Asian and global security. According to reliable and credible sources out there, India has more nuclear weapons and has become the fastest-growing nuclear-weapon state in South Asia. It is not intention but capability that matters. Intentions can be changed overnight. India has already achieved the capability to deploy ICBMs/SLBMs with ranges up to 16,000 km, targeting not only China but also all of Europe, Canada, and the American continent. One may argue that India, with such increasing capabilities, can strike those regions, thereby becoming a global security threat, since it is an outlier to the NPT and does not fully comply with the IAEA’s safeguards despite having signed the IAEA’s additional protocols. Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent forces are India-centric. There is no question that Pakistan, unlike India, becomes a global security threat when it does not have ICBMs, SLBMs with longer ranges, etc. that India has. #India #Pakistan #security #ICBMs #SLBMs #missiles #threat #SouthAsia