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.

Shooting for a Century

The conflict ridden South Asian security environment has always posed a difficult question for promoting international non-proliferation campaign and durable peace through diffusing inflexible the standings of states against each other. Historically, the departure of the British with the end of colonial rule under the global wave of decolonization added a new chapter in the…

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American Perplexing Bilateralism and South Asian Strategic Conundrum

Contemporary geopolitical attributes of South Asia are unambiguously designing a new outlook of the region in which incompatible national standings cemented in various points of disagreements between India and Pakistan are going to draw a new future of the region. The inflexible national standings of both states have dragged the region towards nuclearization where India…

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Pakistan’s Role in the Evolving South Asian Maritime Political Order

Pakistan’s nuclear weapons status ranked it first in the Muslim world, second in the South Asian region and seventh in the international system. The nuclear journey of Islamabad was completed in 1998 when the New Delhi–initiated nuclear race dragged Pakistan toward an unending armed competition in South Asia. Islamabad’s desire to acquire nuclear weapon status…

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Perilous Interventions

Questions of peace, security, human rights, justice and development have always been of great concern to the international community. The established global intergovernmental platforms love to talk about international issues by passing Resolutions and maintaining documented records of their efforts. So, the archival history of world politics witnesses countless attempts of world leaders for improvement…

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Negotiating the Siege of the Lal Masjid

The tragic incident of 9/11 and the onset of American-sponsored war on terror internationally significantly changed the traditional patterns of world politics. The conventional standards for dealing with the security challenges have become an outdated outfit in the twenty first century. The overwhelming wave of non-traditional security challenges forced states to formulate a multilateral framework…

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Washington – New Delhi – Islamabad

Donald John Trump, the 45th President of United States and a renowned businessman politician of the Republican Party assumed office on January 20, 2016 after winning the US elections on November 08, 2016. Trump is significantly emphasizing the Sino–US relations free trade agreement under North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) parallel to inter continental trade…

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State of Insurgency in South Asia

The growing strategic culture of South Asia has always remained a central point of insurgency and counterinsurgency operations. The international community prefers to study South Asian culture of violence in evolving notions of state of insurgency and its undeniable influence on social, economic and political values of nations that are fighting to neutralize the emerging…

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