Author name: Ali Sarwar Naqvi

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi[1] Pakistan was born in a hurry. Even the 1940 Lahore Resolution of the All India Muslim League did not envisage one Muslim state carved out of the departing British Empire, and till the summer of 1946, its birth was not certain. The British Cabinet Mission plan, which continued to be debated

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi* I must begin with a bit of personal history regarding the Fissile Materials Treaty. I may have been the first Pakistani to know of the proposal relating to the conclusion of  such a  treaty. This was the year 1993, and I was the Deputy Chief of Mission in our Embassy in

By Ali Sarwar Naqvi* A wind of change seems to be blowing in the esoteric world of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. New terms like “Nuclear Renaissance” and, more recently, A wind of change seems to be blowing in the esoteric world of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. New terms like “Nuclear Renaissance” and, more recently, “Nuclear