Yaqoob-ul-Hassan

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Archive data: Person was Research Analyst at MP-IDSA

Dr. Yaqoob-ul Hassan is a Research Analyst at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. His areas of research includes Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Political Islam. He has a Masters in Political Science from the University of Kashmir. He completed his PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia and his thesis is titled “Pakistan-US Relations after 9/11: An Analytical Study”. Dr. Hassan was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Istanbul University, Turkey, where he worked on a paper titled “Clash of Islamic and Secular Identities: A Comparative Study between Pakistan and Turkey”. He is currently co-authoring a book on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Email:-yaqoobbhat9[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

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Talks with Taliban: war by other means

The situation in Pakistan today is very fragile. Despite the progress on the democratic front, there is a sense of helplessness on how to tackle the menace of terrorism. Unlike in the past, Islamabad appears quite weak vis-à-vis Taliban while it keeps chanting its commitment to talks with TTP, despite the provocation and retaliation from the army.

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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: Politics, Parties and Personalities

  • Publisher: Pentagon Press
    2019
This book is a rersult of research undertaken on the subject by the scholars associated with the IDSA project on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) - also known as Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) - Which includes both the so-called "Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)" and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), was legally a part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kahmir, which acceded to India in October 1947. The authors of this book seek to provide a critical analysis of the politics of the above mentioned two regions within PoK; throw light on the genesis and evolution of various political parties and interest groups, and acquaint the readers with different pesonalities playing important role in politics therein. The main aim of the publication is to help the scholars, analysts, and policy-makers to understand the dynamics of the political systems in PoK, the complex interaction of these systems with the government in Islamabad and the responses of the local leadership to Pakistan's strateghy of keeping them under strict control in the name of representative governance over the last 70 years.
  • ISBN: 978-93-86618-67-2,
  • Price: ₹.1495/-
  • E-copy available

  • Published: 2019