Dr. Nazir Hussain is Director at School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has to his credit a Post-Doc Research Fellowship from the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris-France (2010). He has Post Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution from the University of Uppsala-Sweden (1991). He was Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Centre, Washington DC., (2000), Research Associate with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) (1996-97) and Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Political and International Studies (IPIS), Tehran-Iran (1995). He specializes in international security affairs and remained associated with the electronic media both as a host and expert on current affairs since 2000.