Adil Sultan is a Deputy Director at Arms
Control & Disarmament Affairs (ACDA)
Directorate of Strategic Plans Division (SPD), Joint Services
Headquarters (JSHQ), Rawalpindi,
Pakistan. He is
an air force pilot by profession, and has been working on arm control,
nonproliferation and disarmament related issues at the SPD, since 2005. He holds MSc in Defence &
Strategic Studies (DSS), MSc Mass Communication, and BSc (Hons) in War Studies.
Currently he is working on his doctoral dissertation on Nuclear
Nonproliferation Regime: Structuring and Integrating Regional and Global
Approaches – A Case Study of South Asia. Adil Sultan was a Visiting
Fellow at Henry L. Stimson Center Washington DC in 2006. He occasionally writes
for print media and is the author of research articles; Indo-US Civil Nuclear
Cooperation Agreement: Implications on South Asian Security Environment
(Stimson Center 2006); Regional Nonproliferation Regime (RNR): A new Approach
to Integrating De-facto Nuclear Weapon States into the Nonproliferation Regime:
The Case of South Asia (IPRI Journal 2007); Fissile Material Treaty: Prospects
and Challenges - Pakistan's Perspective (SASSI 2011); and Pakistan's Emerging
Nuclear Posture: Impact of Drivers and Technology on Nuclear Doctrine (ISSI
Journal 2012).
