Attiq Ur Rehman

Dr Attiq-ur-Rehman is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, NUML. He is a prolific writer and regularly writes for different research journals and magazines. He constantly shares his intellectual insight on various national and international forums.

Conflict Management & Vision for a secular Pakistan: A Comparative Study

The emergence of non-traditional security threats in the international system has raised serious issues of religious extremism and sectarian violence across the globe. In order to stay away from the contemporary wave of religious extremism, the Muslim states around the world, including Pakistan, are designing every possible measure to manage their internal affairs. Moreover, in…

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Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great south Asian War

The debate of counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism in the age of globalization or twenty-first century have direly influenced Pakistan’s mainstream policies. The leading architectures of national security strategy are trying to address the internal and external security threats while chalking out a comprehensive plan for surviving in the regional crisis or the Great South Asia War….

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Indo–Japanese Diplomatic

South Asian political history under an intense competition between India and Pakistan has always been a problematic picture in international relations. The hegemonic desires of New Delhi forced its Hindu leadership to establish strategic connection with extra-regional powers which cannot only help India in asserting its offensive capabilities but also help it in enhancing its…

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A Glimpse of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

The Caucasus region located between the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas is connecting European and Asian continents territorially. The area of Caucasus is mainly occupied by six states – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey. The mountainous terrain of this region is divided between Northern and Southern parts of Caucasia populated by…

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Arming Without Aiming India’s Military Modernization

South Asian environment inherited in Indo-Pak toxic diplomatic interaction has always remained a source of interaction for the international community. Conventional asymmetry based on inflexible national behaviour of New Delhi and Islamabad has resulted in a disturbed regional political setting of South Asia. the Kashmir issue coupled with various points of disagreements of the governments…

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Khojaly Genocide

The history of mankind is full of tragic incidents of massacres and attempts of genocides under the barbaric rubric of ethnic, religious and nationalist causes. Numerous cases of wars within states and between states have caused an unbearable wave of brutality and violence around the globe. The human suffering mainly based on territorial clashes attached…

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Not War, Not Peace

The questions of peace and its association to the subcontinent have always remained the gravitation points of international debate on South Asia in light of the protracted Indo-Pak conflict. An extensive two-sided hostility introduced the nuclear arms race in the region in which India’s detonation of nuclear devices forced Pakistan to announce its nuclear weapon…

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