About the Author

Faisal Cheema is an officer in the Civil Service of Pakistan. In 2001, he completed an M.Phil. degree with a specialization in South Asian arms control in Defence and Strategic Studies from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Prior to that, he received his M.Sc. degree in Defence and Strategic Studies with specialization in South Asian security from Quaid-i-Azam University, and his B.A. in Humanities from Government College in Lahore, Pakistan.

Cheema has written many articles on South Asian security in various national newspapers of Pakistan. His areas of interest include arms control and disarmament, South Asian security, and international political economy. He worked as a research officer at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, where he published articles on "Forms of Terrorism" and "State Terrorism in Kashmir." Cheema completed the research and writing for this Occasional Paper as a visiting Ford Foundation Fellow in 2003 at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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