Tribes of Pakistan

Dr Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan is a Visiting Professor in Political Science at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health and Health Administration (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received his PhD in International Relations and Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA. He has previously served as the Chairman of the Emirates Medical Association, and was one of the five members of the UN mission to Pakistan and Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. He is the author of Karachi in the Twenty-First Century. A veteran of the Pakistan Air Force, Jamal Hussain has been actively involved in literary work since his retirement. In addition to his operational experience as a combat pilot, he is a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, USA, and the National Defence College (NDC) Pakistan, and has served as the Commandant of the Joint Services Staff College Pakistan. Since his retirement, he has been the Director of the Centre for the Aerospace Power Studies located at Pakistan Air Force Base, Faisal. He is the author of Air Power in South Asia and Nuclear Dynamics of South Asia, as well as over a hundred newspaper and journal articles.Asad ul Ghafoor holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources and has served in the Pakistan Air Force as a pilot. He has a keen interest in tribal socio-political dynamics of Pakistan and its effects on security policymaking, and is also a contributor to civil and military publications within Pakistan on the matters of security and strategic interest.