On Tuesday, 16 January, Iran carried out a strike using missiles and drones in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, apparently in the Panjgur district.
Pakistan’s anemic economy (relative to the country’s size, population, and potential) is a critical security vulnerability.
Signed in 2015, many among the Pakistani intelligentsia had perceived that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was a watershed moment for their country. The prevailing thought was that CPEC would herald an enormous and positive economic shift for Pakistan. It was even…
Islamabad can acquire modern weapons from China, but Pakistan’s corroding economy will hamper long-term plans.
Despite this colossal overhead, Pakistan’s so-called defence industry meets little of Pakistan’s defence needs.Â
Pakistan’s near-3% increase to its defence budget will not offset the impact of the country’s structural economic flaws from recent years.
The National Aerospace Science and Technology Park (NASTP) is a project under the Aviation City Initiative. The goal is the establishment of an aerospace technology cluster that is physically collocated in order to accrue the many benefits of having related industrial and…
In early April 2022, the Pakistan Army’s (PA) Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa, said that Western supply restrictions have pushed Pakistan to lean on China for new defence hardware. Gen. Bajwa issued the statement at the 2022 Islamabad…
On 09 March 2022, an Indian Air Force (IAF) BrahMos supersonic land-attack cruise missile (LACM) crashed in Mian Channu, an area located in Khanewal District in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
In a press conference, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Major…
In 2021, Pakistan cemented its defence modernization strategy through the dual approach of acquiring off-the-shelf Chinese solutions and developing original projects.