Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi, Author at Digital Debate UK

Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi is a retired Pakistani diplomat and author with over three decades of experience in international relations. Having joined the Foreign Service in 1984, he served as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh and New Zealand, and as Additional Foreign Secretary for Asia-Pacific. He writes extensively on geopolitics and history, authoring several books including 1971 Fact and Fiction and Ancient and Contemporary Pakistan.

TWO MILESTONES IN HISTORY: Pakistan’s Nuclear tests – and the Conquest of Constantinople
May 29, 2026
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Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi
The month of May has been important in history. On 28 May 1998, Pakistan became a nuclear power, the first and only country in the Muslim world to attain this status. Pakistan was constrained to conduct the tests after India carried out its provocative nuclear tests. This also needs to be noted in the…

TWO MILESTONES IN HISTORY: Pakistan’s Nuclear tests – and the Conquest of Constantinople