IPRI Journal ISSN 1684-9787 e-ISSN 1684-9809 (HEC Recognised X-Category Journal) Editorial Board Chairperson: Ambassador Vice Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Saddique (R), HI (M) Members: Dr Fazal-ur-Rahman Prof. Dr Zafar Iqbal Cheema Prof. Dr Riaz Ahmad Sarah Siddiq Aneel Editorial Advisory Board International Mr Michael Krepon, Co-Founder and President Emeritus, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C., USA. Ambassador (R) Nihal Rodrigo, Former Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs, Sri Lanka and Former Secretary General SAARC, Sri Lanka. Dr Nischal N. Pandey, Executive Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Dr Saadet Gulden Ayman, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul University, Turkey. Dr Tariq Rauf, Principal, Global Nuclear Solutions, Vienna, Austria. Mr Zheng Ruixiang, Former Senior Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Beijing, China. National Dr Asad Zaman, Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan. Prof. Dr Ijaz Hussain, Former Dean and Meritorious Professor, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Prof. Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus-Political Science, Visiting Professor, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr Kamal Monnoo, Director, Samira Fabrics Private Limited, Lahore, and, Member Board of Governors, Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), Islamabad, Pakistan. Prof. Dr Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Dean, Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad, Pakistan. Ambassador (R) Riaz Muhammad Khan, Former Foreign Secretary, Government of Pakistan. Dr Shamim Akhtar, Former Chairperson, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Pakistan. Indexed and Abstracted by Clarivate Analytics-Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science); International Political Science Abstracts, France; ProQuest (International Bibliography of Social Sciences; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts); CrossRef; GoogleScholar; OCLC WorldCat; Heidelberg University OLC South Asia Online Contents; Ibero-American Institute, Berlin; Europa Regional Surveys of the World; Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals; Asianet-Pakistan; and ResearchBib. .