Protecting Pakistan From Within: Will Peace Negotiations Succeed?
By Shemrez Nauman Afzal
Research Advisor and Consultant (Security and Governance)
Spearhead Research – Pakistan
Abstract
The story of peace talks between the Pakistani government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...
Spearhead Special Report – Too Cold to Start
Since partition, Pakistan and India have been at the war front a number of times, and with the recent exposition on the Wiki leaks...
Iran vs. Israel: Winds of War in Syria
Spearhead Special Report – 09.05.2018
By Fatima Ayub
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
In 2017, If the military defeat of IS after confrontations in Iraq and Syria with the broad...
Pakistan’s security snapshot, February – March 2014
The month of February was a rollercoaster for Pakistan’s security, as peace talks with the TTP and the government, through their negotiating committees, had...
PTI – STRENGTHENING THE FEDERATION
Spearhead Special Report – 30.10.2018
By Syed Murtaza Zaidi
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
After winning the majority of seats in the recent General Elections, the PTI, and their leader...
PAKISTAN-US-AFGHANISTAN: The Way Forward
By Hira A. Shafi
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
On August 21st President Trump unveiled the broad contours of the US Afghan and South Asian Strategy. The resolve- as...
Spearhead Special Report – Balochistan: Oscillating in a Chasm
As the ‘Balochistan conflict’ earns the title of Pakistan’s other war, humanitarian attention flocks in the direction of Pakistan’s biggest and least populated province....
Iraq’s elections : Why Muqatada al-Sadr’s win heralds a new era for Baghdad
Spearhead Special Report – 29.05.2018
By Fatima Ayub
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
On 12 May, 2018 Iraq saw its first elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003...
Ukraine Military Dispositions
By Igor Sutyagin and Michael Clarke
The Military Ticks Up while the Clock Ticks Down
On 2 April, NATO’s Supreme Commander in Europe General Philip M Breedlove...
India’s Security Objectives in Afghanistan Spell trouble for Pakistan
Spearhead Special Report – 01.11.2018
By Fatima Ayub
Research Analyst, Spearhead Research
In August 2018, after helping in the construction of Salma Dam in the western Herat province of...