Final nail in NPT coffin
Today, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) stands totally destroyed after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s IAEA safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities. With this, the nuclear nonproliferation regime has also…
Final nail in NPT coffin
Today, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) stands totally destroyed after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s IAEA safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities. With this, the nuclear nonproliferation regime has also…
NPT rules
When all is said and done, what the recently-approved Iran nuclear agreement is all about is ensuring that Iran honours its commitment under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) not to…
Five-year NPT ritual
The 2010 Review Conference (RevCon) on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is currently taking place in New York, almost as a global non-event. The world remains focused on a host of…
NPT and its future
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) comprising 11 articles, basically has three components the pillars as they are generally known: Non-proliferation, Disarmament and the right of the non-nuclear states to use…
The nuclear imperative
IN an increasingly lawless world in which the global order is fragmenting, countries have to navigate an uncharted geopolitical terrain in a very unpredictable environment. Powerful states and regional powers…
What does the pact mean?
breakthroughs in Pakistan’s foreign policy. The pact’s mutual security clause stipulates that an armed attack on either Pakistan or Saudi Arabia will be considered an attack on both and will…
Beyond sanctions and strikes
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Pakistan earlier this month served to highlight once again the importance of the brotherly relations between the two countries for safeguarding their security, promoting…
The ICBM that isn’t
Few nations have endured a more persistent nuclear double standard than Pakistan. Since the 1970s, it has faced sanctions and stigma, not due to misconduct but because of a bias…
Lies, deception and escalation
FOR all Donald Trump’s vows that he will not involve the US in any more wars, he did just that by ordering military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. By joining Israel in…
