Maimuna Ashraf

Maimuna Ashraf

Maimuna Ashraf works as a Senior Research Associate for an Islamabad-based think tank Strategic Vision Institute. She works on issues related to nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and South Asian nuclear equation. She writes for South Asian Voices, international blogs and national dailies.

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Maimuna AshrafSeptember 30, 2017
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Boosting India-Japan strategic ties and its implications

By Maimuna Ashraf Over the past few years, India made significant efforts to access larger nuclear sources and signed several…
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Maimuna AshrafSeptember 24, 2017
10

The curious case of deterrence in US-North Korea tension

By Maimuna Ashraf In the pre nuclear age, the question of credibility in executing the threat was not a vital…
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Maimuna AshrafAugust 31, 2017
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International day against nuclear test & glimpse on non-proliferation

By Maimuna Ashraf Dr Kenneth T Bainbridge was the physicist who directed the first atomic bomb test, and Trinity was…
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Maimuna AshrafJuly 31, 2017
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Counterforce, short-range missiles and India: implications for the region

By Maimuna Ashraf ‘Splendid first-strike’ and ‘strategic ambiguity’ are lately being discussed as the twin strong emerging components of Indian…
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Maimuna AshrafJune 14, 2017
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Criteria, candidacy and upcoming NSG plenary meeting

By Maimuna Ashraf Currently, major challenges that may fall within the critical issues of the NSG that it confronts in nuclear…
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Maimuna AshrafMay 27, 2017
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Tale of the finest hour & nineteen years of deterrence

By Maimuna Ashraf This May, the two South Asian nuclear states mark the nineteenth anniversary to the first detonation of…
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Maimuna AshrafMay 19, 2017
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What India’s recent missile tests reveals

By Maimuna Ashraf ‘Splendid first-strike’ and ‘strategic ambiguity’ are lately being discussed as the twin strong emerging components of Indian…
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Maimuna AshrafApril 29, 2017
16

Missile proliferation, India and MTCR

By Maimuna Ashraf MTCR is one of the four non-proliferation regimes that aim to curb the technology that can be…
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Maimuna AshrafMarch 30, 2017
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Hullabaloo over decoupling of India’s nuclear doctrine

By Maimuna Ashraf The purported claim of Indian Former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon in his book, ‘Choices- Inside the…
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Maimuna AshrafMarch 19, 2017
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India-Israel defense cooperation

By Maimuna Ashraf Israel, followed by Russia and US, is India’s third largest defense supplier and the bilateral defense cooperation…
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