Zahir Kazmi

Kazmi is a graduate student at the Department of Strategic and Nuclear Studies of the National Defence University, Islamabad. He frequently writes on nonproliferation and security issues in major Pakistani journals and newspapers.

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Opinion
30 August 2012
Nuclear Energy

Letter from Pakistan: How an unfair non-proliferation regime undermines nuclear security

Zahir Kazmi

In a September 1967 speech, V.C. Trivedi, the Indian Ambassador to an early UN arms control effort known as the Eighteen Nations Committee on Disarmament, said that developing countries could tolerate nuclear weapons apartheid, but not an atomic apartheid that prevented them from attaining the economic progress that civilian nuclear power can bring. Regrettably, today's global nonproliferation architecture is being applied with such selectivity that it can truly be called the neo-nuclear apartheid.