Paktimes.au: The Secretary-General of the United Nations recently appointed nine new members to his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters to replace nine current ones whose terms will end on 31 December.
Pervez Hoodbhoy from Pakistan was also nominated as a member of UN Secretary-General Advisory Board.
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and defence analyst. He is currently tenuring as the visiting professor of Physics at Lahore University of Management Sciences (not true anymore-mistake in the original article) where Hoodbhoy is also a prominent environmentalist and social activist and regularly writes on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization which publishes Urdu books on feminism, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought. Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a strong and avid supporter for peaceful use of nuclear technology in Pakistan, nuclear non-proliferation, and nuclear disarmament; and criticizing the United States, Israel, Pakistan’s and India’s nuclear program in many national and international forums.
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