Burzine Waghmar

Burzine Waghmar is the Inaugural Visiting India Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London; and an affiliate of the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS), Centre for the Study of Pakistan (CSP), and SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI) at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)He is also a fellow of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), The Hague. 
Burzine's open-source intelligence-commissioned reports and briefings range over Indo-Iranian, Indo-Pakistani, Indo-GCC foreign and security relations as well as the history, religions, and socio-political status of confessional and ethno-linguistic minorities of the SAARC and MENA regions. He is a familiar commentator on BBC News 24, BBC World TV, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service; Channel 4; ZDF TV; Monocle Radio; Al-Jazeera English (AJE); CNN News 18; Times NOW TV; Republic TV; and Voice of America (VOA).
 

Burzine has been a consultant and external auditor to the U.S. National Intelligence Council; Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO); Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), UK; Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), UK; Greater Manchester Police Counterterrorism Unit; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UK; and Ministry of Defence Languages Examination Board (MODLEB).

He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's in International Relations from the College of William & Mary, VA, and Boston University, MA respectively. His thesis examined the evolution of the office of the Supreme Leader (velayat-e faqih) in Shi'i political thought and Khomeinism.

Besides French, German, Italian, Persian and Russian, his reading and research skills of the SAARC sphere incorporate Urdu, Pashto, Balochi, Kashmiri, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali; and Indo-Iranian dialectology, ethnography and historical geography of the Irano-Pak, Sino-Pak and Af-Pak borders (Balochistan, Trans-Karakoram Tract, Gilgit-Baltistan/Northern Areas, NWFP/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas/FATA)

Academia Webpage (publications):  https://soas.academia.edu/BurzineWaghmar

RUSI Commentary, publ. 20 Apr. 2023
 
Burzine Waghmar, 'India at 75: Regional Challenges, China and Pakistan', Maharana Pratap Geopolitics Dialogue 2023
Burzine Waghmar, 'India at 75: Jammu and Kashmir after Abrogation of Article 370', Seminar on Jammu and Kashmir: 3 Years after the Abrogation of Article 370 - Finding a Roadmap for Peace , Security and Development
 
Report: Jammu & Kashmir:3 Years After the Abrogation of Article 370 - Finding a Roadmap for Peace, Security and Development - https://usanasfoundation.com/report-jammu-kashmir-3-years-after-the-abrogation-of-article-370-finding-a-roadmap-for-peace-security-and-development

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