Saira Aquil, an Assistant Professor at Quaid-i-Azam University in the Department of Defence & Strategic Studies. She is the author of Destined to Fail: Democracy and State Building Experiment in Post Taliban Afghanistan published by Oxford University Press, Karachi. Her research focuses on narratives and conflict, state building in war torn societies, and international security. She has published in both national and international journals.

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9510-4712

Postal Address: Dr Saira Aquil, Assistant Professor, Department of Defence &Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan