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South Asia Community
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Prof. Marvin G. Weinbaum
Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and former analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research
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Dr. Shanthie Mariet D'Souza
Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore.
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Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray
Deputy Director in the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Director of the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM)’s Database & Documentation Centre, Guwahati, Assam
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Brig. (ret.) Shaukat Qadir
Retired brigadier in the Pakistan Army, and former Vice President of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute and visiting faculty at Fatima Jinnah University.
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Commodore (Ret.) Rajesh Sarin
Experienced submariner in the Indian Navy, instrumental in introducing new naval technology transferred from Russia.
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Michael Kugelman
Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center.