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Abhinav Pandya
Abhinav Pandya is the CEO and founder of Usanas Foundation, a geopolitics and security affairs think tank. He has authored a book titled 'Radicalisation in India: An Exploration' and his next book 'Terror Financing in Kashmir', is slated to be released soon. He has extensive field research experience of four years in Jammu and Kashmir.

Abhinav Pandya is the CEO and founder of Usanas Foundation, a geopolitics and security affairs think tank. He has authored a book titled 'Radicalisation in India: An Exploration' and his next book 'Terror Financing in Kashmir', is slated to be released soon. He has extensive field research experience of four years in Jammu and Kashmir.

Contributions 
How Pakistan Outwitted the US on Taliban Peace
September 06, 2021 Abhinav Pandya
On 15th August, the Taliban, an insurgent group of Jihadi extremists with medieval values, captured Kabul in a bloodless coup. The 3,50,0001 strong army of ANDSF, equipped with far superior weaponry and trained and developed by the US over...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article
A New Kashmir in the Making
August 03, 2021 Abhinav Pandya
The abrogation of Article 370, nearly two years back, effectively marked the end of Kashmir’s special status. Indeed, this was nothing short of a revolution. It unleashed a series of sweeping changes, ushering in an era of tectonic transformation a...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Commentary, Mahbooba Mufti, elections, Article 370, Hurriyat, DDC, Jamaat, Panchayat
Internet Lockdowns: Is There Any Other Way Out?
March 23, 2021 Abhinav Pandya
India's internet revolution is fast transforming its political, social, cultural, and technological landscape. One of the most critical factors that ensured the landslide victory of PM Modi with his razor-sharp and a straight-forward nationalist dis...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Cyber Security, Article, Pakistan, Kashmir, IB, Social Media, OGWs, DGISPR, foreign terrorists
Jammu and Kashmir: Reaction to the Abrogation of Article 370
March 19, 2021 Abhinav Pandya
There is no dearth of intellectuals and strategic experts deliberating on the post-370 Kashmir and the emerging trends in militancy. In the intellectual milieu, overwhelmingly dominated by Kashmir-centric militancy, often, Jammu never gets its due at...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Pakistan, Kashmir, Jammu, Security Forces, ISI, Article 370, Jamaat-I-Islami, Roshni scheme
Pulwama Charge Sheet: Lessons for Future
September 09, 2020 Abhinav Pandya
On Aug 25, 2020, NIA (National Investigation Agency) filed the charge sheet in the Pulwama fidayeen attack in Jammu court, after 16 months of rigorous and intensive investigation (The Print, Aug. 25, 2020). NIA's charge sheet, a bulky document...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Article, Pakistan, Kashmir, NIA, Jihad, Pulwama, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Masood Azhar, Balakot
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VIF Papers 
J & K : Review of Developments Post the Abrogation of Article 370
October 22, 2019 Abhinav Pandya
… the old order has come to its justified end. There is however, much harmful weed still occupying critical spaces of socio-political, cultural and religious existence. Building a ‘new order’ in a conflict zone is always a daunting challenge. I...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Kashmir, UNHRC, Article 370
Militancy in Kashmir - A Study
March 14, 2019 Abhinav Pandya
.. An alternate narrative needs to be created in universities and colleges of J&K to counter lies peddled by cross-border actors. Think-tanks, research forums, youth forums or inter-faith dialogue bodies and cultural interaction clubs can be created ...

Tags: Terrorism, Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Kashmir militancy, radicalization of Kashmiri youth, Kashmiri separatism
Terror Financing and The Global CTF Regime
January 27, 2017 C D Sahay
How do Terrorists Finance their Operations and Supply their Funds? Finance and movement of funds are crucial to any terrorist organisation. Regular sources of finance are as important as ideology and the ready supply o...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism, Terror Financing, Global CTF Regime, Funds
Book Published / Book Reviews 
Radicalization in India: An Exploration
August 27, 2019 Abhinav Pandya
Kashmir has been in turmoil since the past three decades or so. The state of dissatisfaction in that part of a free, democratic, secular Indian nation is a rather perplexing development, the question being that how can any well groomed group of citiz...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Pakistan, Kashmir, Book Published, Kashmiri people, Radicalization in India
VIF Briefs 
Ban on Popular Front of India - A Long Overdue Step
November 17, 2022 Abhinav Pandya
… strong legal measures, including a law on radicalization and terror funding are the need of the hour to clearly state that attempts to challenge India’s unity and integrity will be firmly dealt with ... red-lines need to be drawn for the media,...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Governance and Political Studies, Islamist terror, radicalization, Violence, PFI, Popular Front of India, anti-terrorist capabilities, anti-national activities
Kashmir - Is the Time Ripe for a New Outreach Strategy?
June 26, 2020 Abhinav Pandya
India’s historic move on August 5, 2019, heralded a new era in Jammu and Kashmir, a state which witnessed an uncertain political status and 30 years of Pak-sponsored Jihadist militancy. Before the abrogation of article 370, the normal life had come...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Pakistan, Kashmir, Terrorism, IS, Al Qaeda, Article 370, Big Outreach
Turkey’s Islamist Agenda in India
February 12, 2020 Abhinav Pandya
Post revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, India faced a month and a half long diplomatic ordeal at various multilateral diplomatic platforms. India successfully navigated the dire strategic straits with most of the countries either support...

Tags: Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, India, Turkey, UNGA, President Erdogan, Islamist Agenda, Islamic Countries, Islamist organizations
Post 370 Kashmir - Roadmap for the future and Emerging Security Challenges
January 06, 2020 Abhinav Pandya
As Jammu and Kashmir enters the fifth month since the abrogation of Article 370, the national and international media, opposition leaders, and many public intellectuals have continued to repeatedly raise serious concerns about the security and commun...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu and Kashmir, Article 370, Post 370 Kashmir
Kashmir - A New Chapter Begins
August 09, 2019 Abhinav Pandya
… the recent decisions of abrogation of Article 370 along with Article 35A, and bifurcation of the State … are indeed historic and will help the State and its people, chart out for itself/themselves a new future of peace, progress and integratio...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Kashmir, Article 35A, Modi Government, Article 370, Chapter Begins
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