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.

The Hinduization of Indian Society under Modi’s Modituva

Contemporary Indian politics under the government of Narendra Damodardas Modi has added a new chapter in the history of Indian politics, which has witnessed the prevalence of various ideologically fanatical political trends under different political regimes of New Delhi. The changing faces of governments remained effective in suppressing the rights of the non-Hindu segments of…

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Hostility: A Diplomat’s Diary on Pakistan-India Relations and More

The troubled history of India-Pakistan relations has always remained a gravitational point of international academic debates. The intellectual circles from different corners of the world have produced sufficient literature on the changing dimensions of the India-Pakistan rivalry based on their varying viewpoints. Thus, the contesting arguments of global intellectual communities witnessed similar trends in the…

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Pakistan’s Response Towards Terrorism

The US-sponsored global war on terror and its worldwide promotion opened another chapter in the history of South Asia, where the pair of nuclear weapon states are good rivals and bad neighbours. Pakistan’s decision to join the US-led global counterterror campaign made Pakistan a frontline state in America’s international counterterror efforts. Pakistan’s alliance with the…

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Pakistan – Tajikistan Relations

Pakistan and Tajikistan are two Muslim states with a thin layer of cooperative interaction in specific fields. The reason behind a limited scope of cooperation with various common cultural and societal similarities is inherited in the historical estrangement. The history of the Cold War period and Pakistan’s decision to join the United States in the…

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Twenty-Four Years of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence and India-Pakistan Conflict

The South Asian region has completed twenty-four years of its nuclear deterrence without having substantial progress in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan. The completion of more than two decades of nuclearization in South Asia has restrained both New Delhi and Islamabad from being involved in a direct war without minimizing their historical points of…

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The Troubled Triangle

South Asian politics cannot be divorced from the influences of great powers due to the intense regional security environment of the nuclearized subcontinent and its increasing reliance on politics of extra-regional powers. The two nuclear weapon states from South Asia have always remained ambitious for acquiring support of external payers while developing various inflexible national…

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Indian Vision of Multilateral Diplomacy and the Creation of New Quad

The modern pattern of Indian foreign policy have introduced various models of its extra-regional diplomatic efforts in which a major transformation in New Delhi’s bilateral to the multilateral approach with the world beyond its neighbors has become an undeniable reality and an irrefutable truth. The diplomatic frameworks of New Delhi always remained active in the…

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Modi’s War Doctrine

The debate on the India-Pakistan strategic competition and its negative impact on regional security environment of South Asia has taken a new turn with the arrival of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. Under his leadership New Delhi has reformed its foreign relations with different states. The impact of Modi’s ideas, first in…

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President Mirziyoyev’s Visit to Islamabad 2022 and Pakistan-Uzbekistan Relations

The recent visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Islamabad in the first week of March 2022 has re-energized academic debate on Pakistan-Central Asian relations. The intellectual circles of the international community started paying attention to the developments of multidimensional cooperative ties between Pakistan and the group of five Central Asian Republics. Also the leaders…

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Pakistan’s Security and the India-US Strategic Partnership

The global nuclear debates started focusing on South Asian regional politics with the prevalence of nuclear shadows on the decades-long India-Pakistan rivalry. Academic circles of the international strategic community diverted their attention towards the South Asian nuclear order while developing their analysis on the India-Pakistan strategic competition. Apart from fluctuating viewpoints, the Indian and Pakistani…

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