Nasir Mehmood

Dec 31, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Nasir Mehmood

2008 के बाद, भारत और पाकिस्तान ने महत्त्वपूर्ण द्विपक्षीय शस्त्र/हथियार नियंत्रण वार्ता नहीं की है, जो 1980 के दशक के बाद से ऐसी चर्चाओं के बिना सबसे लंबी अवधि है। इस विलम्ब के दो प्रशंसनीय नीतिगत स्पष्टीकरण हैं: प्रथम, भारत और पाकिस्तान हथियार नियंत्रण पर चर्चा, आम तौर पर “समग्र सुरक्षा संवाद” (Composite Dialogue Process) के अंतर्गत करते हैं जो कई कारणों — जैसे कश्मीर के लंबित मुद्दे के समाधान ना होने के कारण — डेढ़ दशक से अधिक समय से ठीक से संचालित नहीं हो पाया है| द्वितीय, द्विपक्षीय...

Sep 26, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Nasir Mehmood |Hely Desai |Haleema Saadia

India and Pakistan have not held significant bilateral arms control talks since 2008, constituting the longest period without such discussions since the 1980s. There are two plausible policy explanations for this. First, India and Pakistan typically discuss arms control as part of their composite security dialogue, which the two sides have not been able to properly conduct for over a decade and a half due to several factors, particularly the lingering issue of Kashmir.

Mar 13, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan |Nasir Mehmood |Hely Desai

A few days ago, an Indian news agency, Press Trust of India (PTI), reported that Indian security agencies had intercepted a ship that was bound for Karachi from China at Mumbai’s Nhava Sheva Port. The ship was stopped because it was suspected to be carrying a “dual-use consignment” that could find its way into Pakistan’s nuclear and ballistic missile program.

Feb 29, 2024 | southasianvoices.org | Qamar Shahzad |Zohaib Altaf |Nimrah Javed |Nasir Mehmood

Language not only serves as a means of communication but also exerts a significant psycholinguistic impact on listeners. Specific choices of words can intensify or diminish the importance of any issue and shape perspectives passively. The nomenclature of South Asia’s strategic arsenal presents a unique case. Most non-South Asian nuclear states predominantly name their weapon systems using alphanumeric codes or acronyms based on technical characteristics (e.g., B61, THAAD).

Jan 19, 2024 | medium.com | Nasir Mehmood

A convolutional neural network architecture for object detection and image classification, GoogLeNet is often referred to as Inception v1. With a top-5 mistake rate of 6.7%, it was developed by Google in 2014 and won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in the same year. Here are a few main justifications for using GoogleNet. Christian Szegedy and the GoogLeNet team came up with a brilliant solution to these issues.