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.

Pakistan at the Crossroads

The application of an appropriate strategy for addressing internal security challenges while dealing adequately with external pressures has become a major problem of Pakistan, and a topic of immense importance for the international community. The existential threats of ethno–religious strife from inside have inaugurated a critical debate globally on Islamabad’s contemporary standing in the region….

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Modi’s World Expanding India’s Sphere of Influence

Narendra Damodardas Modi, former Chief Minister of Gujrat and 15th Prime Minister of India has calculatedly inaugurated an ambitious era of multidimensional economic growth, technological advancements, political developments and social reforms for his country. Moreover, the regional and extra-regional foreign policy approaches of Modi coupled with substantial diplomatic aspirations attempt to luminously decorate Indian image…

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49th Member of NSG A Global Concern or South Asian Problem?

The questions to effectively counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons and related material alongwith the peaceful promotion of nuclear technology across the globe have always remained practically incompatible with the strategic competition of states. The debate to cease vertical and horizontal proliferation is as old as nuclear weapons are in the world. The main connexions…

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The Genesis of SouthAsian Nuclear Deterrence:Pakistan’s Perspective

Brigadier retired Naeem Salik is considered an authority on the study of nonproliferation, security and strategic issues. His descriptive style study on ‘The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective’ tries to elucidate an overall setting created by South Asian nuclearization. The writer traces the genesis of nuclearization of South Asia via an overview…

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The Real Face of Dimona

AbstractDimona nuclear reactor is purely a military facility situated in Negev desert near Dimona city of Israel and has covert nuclear program. In 1950s Israeli government received strategic and financial assistance from the U.S and France for the construction of this nuclear reactor. It is believed that this nuclear facilty has around 300 nuclear warheads….

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Nuclear Strategy of Israel

A Strategy of “Deliberate Ambiguity” AbstractIsrael’s nuclear capability is one of the most potentially critical and discussed variable on the world scene today. Israel does not have an overt nuclear doctrine beyond its insistence that it will not introduce nuclear weapons into the region. Instead, it follows the policy of what Avner Cohen calls “nuclear…

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