Experience

• Former Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan (2000-2004)
• Former Head of the Middle Eastern section of the Islamabad Institute of Strategic Studies; also served as a professor at the University of Jordan's Institute for Strategic Studies, researcher at the Universityh of Innsbruck (Austria), and as Course Coordinator for the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Served on the editorial boards of three research journals, including "Strategic Studies in Pakistan"
• Author or co-author of numerous books and articles, including "Pakistan, Unresolved Issues of State and Society" (2008), "Security Problems of the Persian Gulf" (1988), "Security for the Weak Nations" (1987), and "The Sikh Question: From Constitutional Demands to Armed Conflict" (1985)