Zafar Khan

Zulfqar Khan serves as a Professor, Head of Department at the Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Professor Khan has wide experience as a research analyst in the Pakistan Ministry of Defence (MoD), several policy think tanks in Pakistan, and more recently National Defence University, Islamabad. He has contributed more than 45 research articles (both leading national and international journals), and a number of policy papers in this regard including his book on Nuclear Pakistan: Strategic Dimensions (2011).

Zafar Khan is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of International Relations, University of Balochistan, Quetta. He has also taught at the Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His papers have appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals. He has authored Pakistan’s Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence (2015) and Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace (2020).