Ayesha Siddiqa Agha

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Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha (Urdu: عائشہ صدیقہ آغا ) is an independent security analyst and strategic affairs columnist of Pakistan. She did her doctorate from King's College, London in 1996 and has worked on issues varying from military technology, defense decision-making, nuclear deterrence, arms procurement, arms production to civil-military relations in South Asia. Dr Siddiqa has been a civil servant for 11 years during which she was asked to work as the Director of Naval Research with Pakistan Navy making her the first civilian and woman to work at that position in Pakistan's defense establishment. She is also a Ford Fellow and was the 'Pakistan Scholar' at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, DC for 2004-05. Dr. Siddiqa-Agha is author of the book, Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99: In Search of a Policy (Palgrave Press, 2001). Her recent book, Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (Pluto Press), is to be published in April 2007. She has also written commissioned papers on small arms and light weapons proliferation, problems of governance and India-Pakistan relations. Moreover, she has contributed to various international journals like the Journal for Defence and Peace Economics, Jane's Defence Weekly and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.