Pakistan's Foreign Policy,1947-2009 : A Concise History

A distinguished career in Pakistan's Foreign Service provided Abdul Sattar with a unique, personal insight into the making, implementation and consequences of Pakistan's foreign policy from Partition to post-9/11 years. This concise history reflects his knowledge, experience and research that will be of interest to students as well as general readers seeking to form an objective perspective on Pakistan's foreign policy.

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Crowning a thirty-nine year career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Sattar was twice Foreign Minister of Pakistan, from July to October 1993, and from 1999 to 2002. He was Foreign Secretary from 1986-88 and twice Ambassador to India. He also served as Ambassador to the USSR and Permanent Representative to the IAEA in Vienna. As a Distinguished Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, he wrote a research paper on 'Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia.' Published in The Non-proliferation Review in 1994, and later in Dawn, it traced the rationale for Pakistan's decision to acquire nuclear capability and advocated a balanced approach to assimilation of the neo-nuclear states in a global non-proliferation regime. His other research paper, 'Shimla Pact: Negotiating Under Duress', was published in journals in Islamabad and New Delhi in 1995. He also contributed the section on foreign policy in the book Pakistan in Perspective 1947-1997 published by OUP on the fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan. A veteran of the diplomatic service, Abdul Sattar wrote analytical articles on topical national and international issues in Pakistani as well as foreign journals, and a weekly column in the Pakistan Observer from 2006-2009.

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