Articles

Pakistan’s Nuclearisation – Imperatives of National Security and
Survival of a Smaller State
Naeem Salik 1

Factors relating to Pakistan’s decision to go nuclear, ineffectiveness of

defence alliances and weaknesses of conventional defence, the perception

of existential threat to national security and role of political leadership

are discussed.

The US’ Policy of Targeted Killings by Drones in Pakistan
Akbar Nasir Khan 21

The background and strategic logic for the use of drones in the “war on

terror”, its cost in terms of civilian deaths, its limitations as to its

effectiveness and the need to revisit this policy by the US are explained.

US Post 9/11 Persian Gulf Policy: Iran’s Concern and Options
Zahid Ali Khan 41

How the US and Iran view the geo-strategic and economic significance of

the Persian Gulf and the former’s efforts to check the latter’s influence in

the region are studied in the post 9/11 scenario.

Geopolitics of FATA after 9/11
M. Maqbool Khan Wazir 59

The factors that have led FATA to become the hub of terrorist activities,

its socio-economic marginalization and perpetuation of colonial era policies

and what the state needs to do make the subject of this essay.

An Overview of British Administrative Set-up and Strategy
in the Khyber 1849-1947
Javed Iqbal 77

An overview of the colonial administration and strategy in the Khyber

Agency during 1849-1947, its successes and limitations, suggests ways to

devise better measures for handling governance issues in the tribal belt.

Book Reviews

The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan 1947-2008
Ilhan Niaz 96

Water Disputes in South Asia: Threats to Security
Maffuz Ullah, ed. 99

What Was Once East Pakistan
Syed Shahid Husain 101

Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21^st Century:
Competing Visions of World Order
Graeme P. Herd, ed. 103

Post 9/11 Globe
Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Mussarat Jabeen and Naheed S. Goraya, eds. 106

After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan
James F. Dobbins 108

Documents

Second Ministerial Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue Islamabad 110

Speech of the Foreign Minister at International Workshop on Indian
Military’s Cold Start Doctrine and Its Implications for Strategic Stability
of South Asia 111

Joint Statement by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister
David Cameron 115

Joint Statement by the Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation and the Republic
of Tajikistan 116

Joint Communiqué Friends of Democratic Pakistan: Third Ministerial

Meeting, Brussels 119

Joint Statement US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue at the Ministerial Level 121

Joint Statement on the Visit of the President to Sri Lanka 123

Joint Statement by President Hamid Karzai of the Islamic Republic of
Afghanistan and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani of the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan 126

Joint Statement by the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan 129

The 11^th ECO Summit Declaration Istanbul Declaration 2010 133

Pakistan and China Declare 2011 “Year of Friendship” 139

Other IPRI Publications 140