About me

A PhD in International Relations and lecturer at the department of International Relations, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. My PhD dissertation title is “Evangelical Influence on US Foreign Policy; its Impact on Pak-US Relations (Sep 2001-Nov 2007)” and successfully defended it in 2013. I have extensively written in national and international publications and various global issues. I aim to study further in the field of International Relations and Politics. To know as to how the United States has maintained its role as superpower (and whether it would remain a super power with a  unilateralist/militaristic approach in its foreign policy or not?) and how it can help bridging the gap between the West. Moreover, to know, why Pakistan’s foreign policy has remained an unanswered question for many. Also, to examine as to what are the flaws that it is considered a failed foreign policy. My areas of interest span role of religion in politics and its influence on foreign policy, particularly the US and Pakistan, comparative foreign policies of India, China, Iran and Afghanistan, and Russia, terrorism and religious extremism,  role of women in international peace, conflict and security, regional politics of South, South West and Central Asia. I am particularly interested in politics and foreign policy of USA and its policy towards Pakistan. My research, so far has led me to the idea that religious freedom are unwarranted claims all over the world. It is always the state religion, which gains prominence over minority religions within a state. The state projects only the “state religion” and as a result the ills afflict the minorities. Religion has been a source of war as well as peace and has been manipulated through out the years by the interest groups. Within one religion there are so many divisions that people of the same faith are at loggers head with one another with no tolerance for the followers of other religions. Consequently there are suspicions among the suppressed people (by which I mean people of the those Muslim states which have become victims of war on terror) about interfaith dialogue. However, having met many religious scholars, I strongly believe that all religions stand for peace and interfaith dialogue, in its true sense, would mean bringing people from all faiths together for a more stable and peaceful world.