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.

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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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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