Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig

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President @ Strategic Science Advisory Council (SSAC) - Pakistan 🇵🇰
Between Chokepoints and Corridors: Connectivity, Competition, and the Future of Emerging World Order - Global Connectivities

Great power rivalry now unfolds through control of trade routes and infrastructure, where connectivity equals both power and vulnerability.

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Revisiting Islamabad: Power, Pressure, and the Limits of Escalation in the Iran-U.S. Crisis - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig History rarely offers moments where power, pressure, and prudence collide so visibly and so dangerously. The unfolding Iran-United States confrontation is one such moment. At a moment when the world stands on the edge of economic and strategic rupture, the looming second round of Iran-United States talks in Islamabad is

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From Chokepoint to Checkpoint: Islamabad Peace Talks & the Management of Global Disorder - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig The Strait of Hormuz has never been just a narrow maritime passage; it is the central lifeline of a strained global order, channeling a vast share of the world’s energy flows in times of stability. When that lifeline tightens, the consequences are not localized, they reverberate across continents, unsettling economies

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Chokepoints, Corridors, and Pakistan: Regional Conflict & the Politics of Connectivity - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig The map of the Middle East is no longer defined by borders, it is defined by chokepoints under fire. From the Strait of Hormuz to the Persian Gulf and stretching into the Arabian Sea, the arteries of global energy and trade are being transformed into zones of contestation.  What is

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Global Connectivity in Crisis: The Hidden Geo-Economic War in the Middle East - Global Connectivities

The war in the Middle East is reshaping global connectivity by weakening some corridors while strengthening others.

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Microchips and Macro Power - Rethinking Pakistan's Chip Strategy - CommandEleven

The character of warfare is undergoing a profound transformation. Modern battlefields are no longer defined solely by tanks, fighter jets, or missile systems; they are increasingly shaped by algorithms, computational speed, and microelectronic superiority. At the heart of this transformation lies semiconductor technology, which now serves as the foundational infrastructure for emerging military innovations, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing.

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The End of Equilibrium: A New Era of Uncertainty in the Middle East - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig The joint U.S.-Israeli military operation “Operation Epic Fury” that eliminated Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei (1939-2026), will be remembered not simply as a military strike, but as a geopolitical rupture. It is the kind of moment that divides eras. In Washington and Jerusalem, it may be framed as

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Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Post-U.S. Withdrawal: Sovereignty, Security and the New Great Game - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig In the long shadow of the Durand Line, history rarely sleeps. It mutters through mountain passes, echoes in border posts, and now reverberates in the uneasy silence between Islamabad and Kabul.  The present tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan are not the product of a single incident or a fleeting misunderstanding;

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Balochistan – Where Insurgency, Rare Earth Minerals, and Great-Power Rivalry Converge - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig Balochistan – Pakistan’s largest yet most underdeveloped province has once again moved from the margins to the center of national and international strategic attention. A recent wave of coordinated insurgent attacks, unfolding alongside intensifying global competition over rare earth minerals, signals that the province is no longer merely a domestic

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Sindh Vision or Political Amnesia? - World Geostrategic Insights

By Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig Bilawal Zardari’s unveiling of a “Sindh Vision” at the President’s House is less a moment of policy renewal and more a reminder of a long-standing contradiction between rhetoric and reality.  The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has governed Sindh almost uninterruptedly since 2008 – nearly seventeen years of continuous control over

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