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Associate Fellow: Feroz Hassan Khan

Feroz Hassan Khan is a former Brigadier general in the Pakistan Army, currently on the faculty of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California. He has served on numerous assignments in the United States, Europe, and South Asia In his military career; he experienced combat action and command on active fronts on the Line of Control in Siachin Glacier and Kashmir.

He last served as Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, within the Strategic Plans Division, Joint Services Headquarters. Khan had been a key contributor in formulating Pakistan’s security policies on nuclear and conventional arms control and strategic stability in South Asia.

He produced recommendations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and represented Pakistan in several multilateral and bilateral arms control negotiations. Among his academic degrees, Brigadier Khan holds a M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington DC. He has also been teaching as a visiting faculty at the Department of the Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

He has held a series of visiting fellowships at Stanford University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; the Brookings Institution; Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratory. He has participated in several security related national and international conferences and seminars and has written articles, book chapters in several reputed journals, newspapers and publications. Amongst his recent articles are “ “Challenges to Nuclear Stability in South Asia,” Non- Proliferation Review, Spring 2003, “The Dependence- Independence paradox”, Arms Control Today October 2003, and Nuclear Command- and – control in South Asia during Peace, crises and War, in Contemporary South Asia, June 2005.

He has contributed to book chapters in “Pakistan Nuclear Future” in Michael Chambers ed. “South Asia in 2020: Future Strategic Balances and Alliances”, US Army War College , Carlisle Barracks and “Nuclear Signaling, Missiles and Escalation Control in South Asia, in Michael Krepon etel eds. “Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia”, Stimson Center 2004. He authored occasional paper “A Missile Stability Regime in South Asia” Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, 2004.

Papers by Feroz Khan, Brigadier General (Ret'd) Pakistan Army.

- Article for Force Magazine India. Click here.

- A missile stability regime for South Asia. Click here.

- Brief biography Feroz Khan. Click here.

- Challenges to nuclear stability in Saudi Asia. Click here.

- The Independence dependence paradox stability dilemmas in South Asia. Click here.