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Pakistan: What a New Kashmir Policy Might Look Like
RUSI Newsbrief, 20 November 2020
Tim Willasey-Wilsey
Pakistan pays a heavy price for its claim to Kashmir: higher military spending, domestic instability, and exclusion from Indian markets and the transit trade with Central Asia. A more coherent Kashmir policy could be constructed at much reduced cost based on achievable objectives, a sober view of the national interest and the long-term needs of the Kashmiri people.
Tags: Pakistan, India
Soft Power in International Military Relations: A UK–Pakistan Case Study
Commentary, 30 September 2020
Mary Hunter
Militaries can generate more than just hard power as the British and Pakistani armed forces demonstrate.
Tags: Pakistan, UK
Thawing Out Asset Freezes: Reforming Exemptions to UN Terrorism Sanctions
RUSI Newsbrief, 4 September 2020
Stephen Reimer
Media claims got it wrong when they reported that the 1267 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council had authorised the unfreezing of bank accounts belonging to several high-profile Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. But the story reveals how humanitarian exemptions to UN asset freezes lack transparency and effectiveness in countering terrorism financing.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, United Nations, AML/CTF
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Unease and Reassurance Amid Changing Regional Realities
Commentary, 25 August 2020
Kamal Alam
Reports of cooling relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are incomplete. Behind the scenes, Pakistan’s top military officer is helping recast the relationship on a more solid footing.
Tags: Pakistan, The Gulf Region
Book Review: In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
RUSI Journal, 20 August 2020
Raffaello Pantucci
Raffaello Pantucci reviews In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, by C Christine Fair.
Tags: Pakistan, Tackling Extremism, Terrorism, Central and South Asia
Imran Khan’s Pakistan and its Strategic Relevance for the UK
Commentary, 10 August 2020
Umer Karim
Pakistan’s government has been in power for two years and, notwithstanding obstacles, has had several major foreign policy achievements on which the UK could capitalise.
Tags: Pakistan, Global Strategy and Commitments, UKPages
Soft Power in International Military Relations: A UK–Pakistan Case Study
Commentary, 30 September 2020Mary Hunter
Militaries can generate more than just hard power as the British and Pakistani armed forces demonstrate.
Pakistan, UK
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Unease and Reassurance Amid Changing Regional Realities
Commentary, 25 August 2020Kamal Alam
Reports of cooling relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are incomplete. Behind the scenes, Pakistan’s top military officer is helping recast the relationship on a more solid footing.
Pakistan, The Gulf Region
Imran Khan’s Pakistan and its Strategic Relevance for the UK
Commentary, 10 August 2020Umer Karim
Pakistan’s government has been in power for two years and, notwithstanding obstacles, has had several major foreign policy achievements on which the UK could capitalise.
Pakistan, Global Strategy and Commitments, UK
Death of Qassem Soleimani: What to Expect in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Commentary, 24 January 2020Umer Karim
Soleimani’s successor is an Iranian officer with experience in fomenting trouble in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That is an ominous sign for both countries.
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, National Security
A Confident Pakistan Army Recalibrates the Country’s Regional Policies
Commentary, 18 March 2019Kamal Alam
Pakistan’s military is playing a significant role in assisting the country’s prime minister in the conduct of foreign and security policies, and usually with the objective of scaling down confrontations.
International Security Studies, Pakistan, Defence Management, Indo-Pakistan Conflict, Global Security Issues, Land Forces, Military Personnel, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, ResiliencePages
Imran Khan's Pakistan
Multimedia, 27 July 2018Raffaello Pantucci and Kamal Alam talk about the recent election victory by Imran Khan in Pakistan.
Tags: International Security Studies, Pakistan, Global Security Issues, Central and South Asia
President Trump's New Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia
Multimedia, 22 August 2017RUSI Senior Research Fellow Emily Winterbotham examines the new US strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia announced by President Trump on 21 August 2017.
Tags: International Security Studies, Land Operations, Pakistan, Terrorism, US Defence Policy, Afghanistan, Global Security Issues, Central and South Asia
Pakistan: What a New Kashmir Policy Might Look Like
RUSI Newsbrief, 20 November 2020Tim Willasey-Wilsey
Pakistan pays a heavy price for its claim to Kashmir: higher military spending, domestic instability, and exclusion from Indian markets and the transit trade with Central Asia. A more coherent...
Pakistan, RUSI Newsbrief, India
Thawing Out Asset Freezes: Reforming Exemptions to UN Terrorism Sanctions
RUSI Newsbrief, 4 September 2020Stephen Reimer
Media claims got it wrong when they reported that the 1267 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council had authorised the unfreezing of bank accounts belonging to several high-profile Lashkar-e-...
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, United Nations, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF
Book Review: In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
RUSI Journal, 20 August 2020Raffaello Pantucci
Raffaello Pantucci reviews In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, by C Christine Fair.
Pakistan, RUSI Journal, Tackling Extremism, Terrorism, Central and South Asia
Pakistan and the Rogue State Narrative
RUSI Newsbrief, 5 June 2020Don McLain Gill and Jovito Jose P Katigbak
Despite behaviour that often violates international norms, Pakistan has managed to maintain positive relationships with major Western powers.
Pakistan, United States, RUSI Newsbrief, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Terrorism
The 2019 UK PONI Papers
Conference Reports, 20 December 2019Edited by Sam Dudin and Chelsey Wiley
The 2019 UK PONI Papers examine contemporary civil and military nuclear issues and are written by emerging experts from academia, government and industry who presented at the 2019 UK Project on...
Pakistan, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Integrated Review 2021, India, Russia, Conference Reports, UK, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Technology, UK Defence, EuropePages
CPEC: Opportunities for UK-China Collaboration
Events, 31 March 2017At this RUSI conference, representatives from the UK, Pakistan and China will discuss opportunities for collaboration on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
China, International Security Studies, Pakistan
Regional and International Security Perspectives on Pakistan
Events, 5 December 2016General Pataudi, former Director General Strategic Intelligence and Analysis wing of Pakistan's ISI shall be sharing his insights on the role of Pakistan’s military and security services in combating...
International Security Studies, Pakistan
" Depending on how the country's political spectrum now evolves, there are signs that the current state of affairs within civil-military ties will be sustained until leaders on both sides bid farewell to their positions."
Current state of civil-military relationship and future trends
In The News, 4 December 2019 Tags: Pakistan
"In February 1984, the deputy head of the Indian Consulate in Birmingham was grabbed as he got off the bus heading home with a cake for his daughter’s birthday. The next day, Kashmiri nationalists announced that they had kidnapped him and were demanding a ransom and the release of a Kashmiri leader in Indian custody. The Indian government refused and Mhatre was brutally murdered. Three decades later in 2005, the Kashmiri connection came to life once again when a group of British born young men blew themselves up on the London public transport system murdering 52 innocent commuters. Their journey to Al Qaeda training camps had started through Kashmiri oriented ones. "
India's actions in Kashmir could have bloody consequences in the UK
In The News, 5 August 2019 Tags: International Security Studies, Pakistan, Pacific
"“For now, I think the Pakistani side would be happy with what they got,” said Umer Karim, a visiting fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "
Pakistan PM Khan returns home exulting after Washington visit
In The News, 25 July 2019 Tags: Pakistan, Central and South Asia
"The Friday attack was “reflective of a growing China focus by the BLA”, said Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the London-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies."
Separatist rebels storm China's consulate in Pakistan, two police killed
In The News, 23 November 2018 Tags: China, International Security Studies, Pakistan, Terrorism, Pacific
"Karin von Hippel on Trump's decision to cut US assistance to Pakistan."
Dr Karin von Hippel on US-Pakistani relations
In The News, 2 September 2018 Tags: Pakistan, United States
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement