Introduction ‘China Pakistan Economic Corridor’ has been celebrated as the game-changer project, spearheaded by China which was hailed as the harbinger of economic prosperity to impoverished Pakistan. The Chinese investment plan for an economic Corridor from Kashgar through Gilgit- Baltistan to Gwadar, promised twice as much FDI that Pakistan had received since 2008. There was a military-political consensus on the CPEC. However, in their exuberance to launch the ambitious pro

Introduction India, with its highly credible non-proliferation track record, has been admitted as the 42nd member of the elite export control regime, called the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on 07 December 2017. The decision was taken at the two-day plenary meeting of the grouping on 06-07th December in Vienna, Austria. This admission opens the doors for India to acquire critical technologies that will help to appropriately address the demands of India space and defence sectors.

Introduction Israel – Palestine stand-off started in the early 1920s and through decades persisted, unresolved till date. There could have been a two-state solution as early as 1947. That’s precisely what the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) proposed, recognizing the presence of two peoples – and two nationalisms – in a territory governed temporarily by the United Kingdom. And the UN General Assembly decisively endorsed the UNSCOP proposal. The Jewish side pragmatic