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.

US-Pakistan Relations

The recent history of world politics witnessed by the US-withdrawal from Afghanistan and the re-arrival of Donald Trump in American politics as the 47th President of the United States has altered the conventional framework of Pakistan-US relations. The cooperative ties between the two states have a long history of multidimensional bilateral engagements in diverse domains…

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Post-Conflict Reconstruction

The debate on the developments in post-conflict scenarios and the inception of multilayered reconstruction efforts has gained momentous importance in the post-9/11 international system due to the global rise of non-traditional security threats. An overwhelming wave of literature has appeared from different corners of the world on the changing patterns of global security dynamics under…

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Hindutva and RSS-BJP Nexus

The rise of extremist ideas in Indian domestic politics under the Modi government has shaken New Delhi’s constitutional foundations and its manifestations in the country’s foreign relations. The arrival of Modi in Indian politics as Prime Minister augmented the role of religion in the country’s politics based on the fanatical ideological configurations of the Bharatiya…

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State – Society Conflict in Pakistan

The state-society interaction in Pakistan has a direct connection with the country’s political stability, governance structure, and economic development. This interaction has resulted in a multifaceted conflicting scenario in which the country’s political and social landscapes are passing through critical phases. The leading academic surveys from diverse directions of international intellectual communities have emerged, they…

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Pakistan The Search For Stability

“Pakistan: Search for Stability” is an insightful account of various arguments concerning Pakistan’s quest for managing its political, social, and economic stability while examining the mainstream challenges to its vision of political strength, economic development, and social prosperity. The book highlights various challenges that hinders the country’s potential for becoming a strong nation in regional…

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Chequered Past Uncertain Future

The history of the subcontinent’s politics and the creation of Pakistan has always remained an area of immense scholarly importance in the world. Leading figures of the international intellectual community have maintained varying positions on the creation of Pakistan and the initiation of ideological politics in the post-colonial subcontinent in which the Indian and Pakistan…

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The Rise of the Semi-Core

The debate on the transforming power dynamics of Asian politics cannot be separated from the emerging economic interconnectedness between China, India, and Pakistan. The leaders of three nuclear powers contain substantial potential for altering the conventional political landscape of Asian power politics, which cannot be divorced from global power politics. Beijing’s recently launched global trading…

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War, Violence and Women’s Agency in Pakistan

The issues of women’s rights in Pakistan primarily originate from the traditional positions of females associated with the conventional socio-economic and socio-political descriptions. A complex combination of various cultural, religious, and ideologically driven legal factors generally shapes the marginalized role of women in mainstream state affairs. These created the multileveled issues of women’s marginalization across…

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Pakistan and American Diplomacy

In contemporary international power politics, the multileveled Beijing-Washington conflicted interaction and the growing US-India strategic partnership have become the critical factors hampering the conventional framework of Pakistan-US relations. The recent phase of Islamabad-Washington relations has dragged the attention of international academic communities towards the evolving patterns of cooperative bilateralism between Pakistan and the United States….

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