#cuttheclutter Pakistan has a new National Security Adviser (NSA). In Episode 1652 of #CutTheClutter @ShekharGupta contrasts this with India’s reconstitution of its National Security Advisory Board, involving balanced representation from the armed forces, police, and diplomacy; he also contextualises these developments within broader civil-military relations, offering insights into two sharply divergent security architectures in South Asia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to 'Evolution of national security structures in Pakistan' by Nasir Hafeez https://www.jstor.org/stable/48529365 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to 'The Evolution of India’s National Security Architecture' by P.S. Raghavan: https://idsa.in/system/files/jds/13-3-2019-evolution-of-india-national-security.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced By: Mahira Khan

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Pakistan has offered to cooperate if India were willing to agree to a neutral probe into the Pahalgam terror attack. In Episode 1651 of #CutTheClutter Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at past instances of Islamabad offering cooperation in the aftermath of a terror attack in India, and explains how it might be a strategy to virtue signal and buy time.

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Produced By: Mahira Khan