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Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Brigadier General Faroz Khan (Ret.) was commissioned in the Pakistan Army as a teenager during the 1971 war with India. Three years later, the first nuclear explosion by India changed the strategic landscape of the region, leaving an indelible mark on Pakistan's security perception. Brigadier Khan is a 1991 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Shortly thereafter he became the officer in charge of 48 military posts in the Siachen Glacier, north of Kashmir. In the mid 1990s, he established a "special cell" in the General Headquarters that carried out analysis from a military standpoint on various security and arms control issues. Brigadier Khan's regular interaction with international and national think tanks helped him formulate Pakistan's security policy on nuclear and conventional arms control issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brigadier Khan participated in multilateral arms control negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He was most recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.