 in Strategic Studies from Aberdeen University (UK) and a Ph.D. degree from Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan).Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema had been a teacher and a researcher for more than 45 years both inside Pakistan as well as abroad.Inside Pakistan, he had taught at Government College (Lahore), Pakistan Administrative Staff College (Lahore), Quaid-i-Azam University, (Islamabad), and National Defence University, Pakistan (Islamabad).