Abstract
The book ‘Marka-e-Haq: Deterrence, Provocation and Strategic Maturity in South Asia’ is a profound scholarly contribution to understanding the South Asian Strategic landscape. Written against the backdrop of the May 2025 India-Pakistan crisis, Marak-e-Haq (the Battle of Truth), the book narrates the conflicting objectives in the way South Asian nuclear rivals Pakistan and India view the logic of war and peace in the region. Divided into ten chapters, the book offers a rare opportunity to the strategic community that includes both practitioners and academics from Pakistan to present Pakistan’s view on the unfolding of Marak-e-Haq. The book is edited by Zafar Khan (PhD), who is Executive Director of the Balochistan Think Tank Network (BTTN) and a Professor of International Relations at the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta. He has published extensively in leading international journals and is the author of two books, i.e., Pakistan’s Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence (2015) and Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace (2020).