Rabia Akhtar
@Rabs_AA
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Dean Social Sciences @ULahore Dir @CSSPR_UOL, PhD Security Studies @KState Author,The Blind Eye: US Nonprolif Policy towards 🇵🇰 Non-Res MTA Associate @Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2012
Excited to launch my Substack: Strategic Fractures .Join my space to rethink power, deterrence, and global security from the lens of the Global South anchored in Pakistan’s strategic thought. Subscribe for free & follow the journey
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RT @AbdulMananleo: اجیت ڈوول نے #OperationSindoor کو بھارت کی تکنیکی برتری کا جشن بنایا، لیکن پاکستان کے نپی تلے اور مؤثر جواب پر خاموشی اخ….
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Four senior Indian officials. Four different platforms. One quiet truth: the Indian Air Force lost jets to Pakistan on May 7, 2025. What is louder than the silence? The coordinated attempt to bury the story.
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RT @syedalizia1992: In my latest article for Australian Outlook, I argue that the U.S. must win Iran's trust if it wants to reach a new nuc….
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RT @Imadabbastkd: As per an eye witness who was also in that same bus, “they checked for CNIC in a sequence. Since I was from Hazara, I was….
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RT @AnasMallick: Baloch Terrorist Organisation the BLA has claimed responsibility for killing innocent workers from Punjab in Balochistan a….
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Yes, the world noticed.
It does not matter what Indians & Pakistanis say on #OperationSindoor. It matters what the world thinks of the four days war. And what it thinks is evident from the meteoric rise of Pakistan's geopolitical status!.
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RT @PravinSawhney: It does not matter what Indians & Pakistanis say on #OperationSindoor. It matters what the world thinks of the four day….
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According to Doval, the battlefield was one-sided, the missiles were smart, and the enemy? Practically paranormal.
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What did I just hear? A eulogy for deterrence or a declaration of doctrinal delusion?. Ajit Doval’s framing of #OperationSindoor as a clean, clinical demonstration of India’s technological superiority is strategically disingenuous. By celebrating India’s precision strikes and.
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RT @ejazhaider: in her substack here, @Rabs_AA challenges the foundations on which India is building its punitive strategy and which is now….
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Great questions @microrapptor Here's how I look at it:.1. Yes, there is a distinct analytical myopia both among some Indian generals and segments of the strategic community when it comes to acknowledging the shifting contours of the conventional balance with Pakistan. The belief.
@Rabs_AA @CSDR_India Q1: Do you think there is a myopia within indian generals & scholars that the conventional military gap between both countries is getting narrower? .Q2: Also, did the book consider that the Chinese role is no longer passive in Kashmir.
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Is India rewriting the logic of nuclear deterrence in South Asia? Yes and it is doing so openly, deliberately, and dangerously.
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RT @syedalizia1992: What's worrying is that Indian experts are downplaying the risks of escalation associated with deterrence. Such thought….
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RT @syedalizia1992: This is an excellent appraisal of a new volume published by CSDR, by @Rabs_AA , identifying how India is normalizing, t….
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The new e-book by @CSDR_India on Op Sindoor is not just a post-crisis account, it is India’s blueprint for normalising pre-emptive force against 🇵🇰Here I examine why this strategic shift should alarm anyone concerned with nuclear stability in South Asia.
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