By Dr Shireen M Mazari At the 2017 EU Non Proliferation and Disarmament Conference in Brussels on 12-13 December 2017, the same arguments put forward decades earlier came forth on the same issues. The perspectives remain the same, as do the arguments, although some new issues have come centre-stage now. For instance, North Korea has…
By Amina Afzal On December 7, 2017, India became the 42nd member of the Wessanar Arrangement, a multilateral export control regime that promotes greater transparency and responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual- use goods and technologies. In another significant development India became a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in June…
By Muhammad Abdul Qadeer The government of India blames Pakistan for not fulfilling the preconditions for a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It maintains that plebiscite was “conditional upon Pakistan fulfilling Parts (I) & (II) of the United Nation’s resolution of August 13, 1948 which required Pakistan to withdraw its troops and to secure…