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.

Learning to Live with The Bomb, Pakistan: 1998–2016

Regional politics of the nuclearized subcontinent in the presence of protracted India–Pakistan rivalry has become a topic of immense importance and lacks a balanced approach internationally. The leading strategic circles of intellectual community always try to avail opportunities for discussing the South Asian nuclear race in a different perspective. No doubt, the environment caused by…

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The Untold Story of Dimona

The strategic landscape of the Middle East is a difficult puzzle of covert alliances, clandestine nuclear activities, incompatible political behaviours and contesting territorial claims of regional states. A complex network of intelligence communities actively working in a troublesome environment is an additional factor dominating the ongoing wave of crisis which is fundamentally inherited in unsettled…

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Indo – Israel Strategic Interaction

The Republic of India from South Asia and the State of Israel from the Middle East broadly share common strategic interests of fighting against neighbouring Muslim states while ignoring their legitimate existence. The leaders of both states treat each other as the victims of neighbouring states while trying to secure international support. The strategic imperatives…

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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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