Abdul Sattar
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...See more
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. See less
