Ms. Maria Sultan was formerly the
deputy director of South Asian Strategic Stability Unit at the Bradford
Disarmament Research Centre. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of
Strategic Studies (ISSI) in Islamabad.
Ms. Sultan is a specialist in South Asian nuclear arms control issues,
disarmament, and weapon systems development and has published widely in
academic journals and the South Asian media.
Before joining ISSI as a researcher
Maria was a journalist working as an assistant editor in the influential
English daily The Muslim. Her media work has also included time as an anchor
person in both TV and radio programmes. Ms. Sultan is on the list of visiting faculty
member/speaker at Pakistan's
National Defense University, Pakistan Foreign Service Academy, Pakistan Naval
War College
and is a guest lecturer at the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University,
Islamabad and the Department of International
Relations, University
of Peshawar and Command
And Staff College Quetta.
