Challenges to non-proliferation
Permanent Envoy of Pakistan at the UN Maleeha Lodhi spoke at the UNSC debate on ‘Global efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-state actors’ on…
Balancing non-proliferation and commercial interest
India’s bid for membership in the NSG didn’t get accepted in the June Plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Though the US had earlier arm-twisted states into giving India a…
Non-proliferation politics
It is an established fact – but not widely known – that Pakistan has been using nuclear technology for a wide range of peaceful applications for a long time. This…
Without a solution
North Korea continues to expand its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, but the world remains clueless on how to deal with the rogue regime of Kim Jong-un. Over the past…
No exception for India
India’s hopes of becoming the newest member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) have, finally, been quashed after the end of the inconclusive meeting in Vienna. By denying India’s membership…
The case for Pakistan
As an advanced and experienced nuclear capable state with strong non-proliferation credentials and supplier potential, Pakistan feels that its mainstreaming into the expert control regimes would be mutually beneficial for…
India and the NSG
Let there be no doubt that an India-specific inclusion would go to great lengths to undermine the long-standing non-proliferation principles of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Over the past few…
India and the NSG
The India-US joint statement of November 2010 stated that the US intends to support India’s ‘full membership’ in the multilateral export control regimes by encouraging the evolution of membership criteria,…
Don’t forget the missiles
In the second nuclear age, we have entered a new and dangerous phase of unchecked proliferation in which missile proliferation in many regions of the world is threatening to disrupt…
The ballistic missile threat
In the second nuclear age, we have entered a new and dangerous phase of unchecked proliferation in which the missile competition between the major regional powers is threatening to disrupt…
