Bushra Mehmood is an independent policy analyst and writer on strategic affairs based in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a focus on South Asian security, nuclear deterrence and regional diplomacy, she examines the strategic dynamics that shape the India–Pakistan relationship and Islamabad’s evolving foreign policy posture. Her work analyzes civil–military relations, crisis management, and the politics of conflict and peace in the subcontinent. She brings a Pakistani perspective to international discourse on some of the region’s most consequential questions, at a time when that perspective is consistently underrepresented in global media.