Currently, Pakistan has asked the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to revitalise its nuclear power programme as the country is heading towards the goal of significantly scaling up nuclear power to meet the rising energy demand. It is not a piece of fake news that the UN nuclear watchdog, The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeated commended the nuclear security measures taken by the Pakistani government, saying that the steps taken by Islamabad are consistent with the recommendations of the global nuclear watchdog. While Pakistan is a member of the IAEA Boards of Governors, it holds the record of having been elected 19 times to the board in the past and has had played a crucial part in the formulation of the agency’s policies and programmes. To fulfil its energy needs, Pakistan is planning to expand its nuclear energy programme for peaceful purposes. Therefore, it is important to understand the justifications argued by the Government of Pakistan vis-à-vis its right of expanding peaceful use of nuclear energy in accordance with its emery requirements. The National Power Policy 2013, formulated by the Government of Pakistan, primarily aims –to develop an efficient and consumer- centric power generation, transmission and distribution system corresponding the needs of the people– and boosts the economy in a sustainable and affordable manner. The goals of this policy are clearly defined: meeting the targets and thereby gauging the success of the policy. These targets include: eliminating load shedding; decreasing the average cost of electricity generation to below Pak Rupees 10/kW·h; decreasing transmission and distribution losses from 23-25% to 16%; increasing revenue collection from 85% to 95%; and reducing the time required to a minimum for decision making at the national level. As Pakistan seeks to significantly scale-up nuclear power to meet the rising energy demands of a growing population, the South Asian country has turned to the IAEA for support in strengthening its nuclear power programme Pakistan ‘s poised and trustworthy relations are based on the notion that peaceful use of our nuclear programme is the prime objective of Pakistan nuclear regime rightly maintaining the balance between our nuclear exigencies and vigilant compliance of IAEA safety protocols within the parameters of It also discusses some of the challenges related to nuclear law at the international level, which include difficulties of nuclear law in remaining at pace with technological developments; reactive regime; emerging nuclear security threats; duplications of nuclear security efforts; intrusive nature of safeguards. As Pakistan seeks to significantly scale-up nuclear power to meet the rising energy demands of a growing population, the South Asian country has turned to the IAEA for support in strengthening its nuclear power programme. Regulators, operators and representatives of organizations involved in Pakistan’s nuclear power programme gathered at the IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna last month to discuss the Agency’s streamlined support for the country, which is aiming to expand its nuclear power generating capacity more than six-fold over the next decade, from 1430 MW to 8800 MW. To assist Pakistan regarding the rapid expansion of nuclear power, the nuclear watchdog has amalgamated four of its pre-existing national technical cooperation projects, which supported the regulators, operators, waste managers and non-destructive testers involved in Pakistan’s nuclear power programme, into a single project, according to a press release of IAEA. IAEA’s streamlined support for Pakistan aimed to expand the nuclear power generating capacity more than six-fold over the next decade, from 1430MW to 8800MW was discussed by regulators, operators and representatives of organisations involved in Pakistan’s nuclear power programme who gathered at IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna recently. Fairly put, our nuclear safety standards are far better than the average standards. This appraisal holds much weight that as compared to India, Pakistan’s performed standard of compliance vis-à-vis the nuclear security safeguards proposed by the IAEA is much higher and satisfactory. Time and again, the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has praised the role of Pakistan in making duly compliance of the IAEA safety protocols. “Your country is an experienced user of peaceful nuclear technology. You have the knowledge; you have the pool of well-trained people to do their job. We [IAEA and Pakistan] have a fruitful two-way relationship,” said the IAEA chief while addressing a seminar. In 2018 MrAmano appreciated Pakistan role towards nuclear security and safety: Discussing the role of nuclear power in meeting the future electricity needs of the country, Amano said: “Energy is indispensable for development. Nuclear power can help address challenges as it is low-carbon energy. Access to nuclear power should not be limited to developed countries; developing countries should also have access to it.” As for the South Asian nuclear control regime, though like India Pakistan is not a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Islamabad does appreciate bi-partisan India-Pakistan negotiations of the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT). Pakistan rightly argues that in the face of India’s increasing conventional capability, it seems unfair to expect from Pakistan to cap its fissile materials production. Justifiably, in response to the U.S.-India deal (2005), Pakistan sought to increase its civilian nuclear cooperation with China. Under a previous cooperation framework, China supplied Pakistan with two pressurized water reactors (PWR), CHASNUPP-1 and CHASNUPP-2, that entered into commercial operations in 2000 and 2011 respectively. In 2009, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) agreed to supply two additional 340-MW power reactors to Pakistan, CHASNUPP-3 and CHASNUPP-4. Despite the 2005 US-India deal on nuclear civil energy, an open transgression of nuclear laws which faced genuine criticism by the Global Warming experts, Washington tried to charter its unwarranted concerns regarding Chinese construction of these nuclear reactors at Chashma,. The security division of the SPD has established an organizational reporting system for monitoring the movements of all officials. Two identical programs for employment security were created: one the Personnel Reliability Program (PRP) and other the Human Reliability Program (HRP), for military and civilian personnel, respectively. Systematically, a security clearance system of annual, semiannual, and quarterly review was created. Likewise, the Counter Intelligence Teams were established to act as the daily eyes and ears of the SPD. In this regard, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the security of all organizations are foolproof maintained by the SPD to prevent theft, loss, or accident. And furthermore, the Nuclear Security and Action Plan(NSAP )has established border controls at major crossing points with state-of-the-art screening procedures with the help of the IAEA and the U.S. Department of Energy. And importantly, a Nuclear Security Emergency Coordination Center has been established in Islamabad,-maintaining thereby inter departments’ coordination among all the government agencies. In addition, regional offices in all major cities have been established– creating a network of six emergency-response mobile laboratories. Pakistan is also a member of some multilateral programmes, including the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). The writer is an independent ‘IR’ researcher and international law analyst based in Pakistan