Bashir Ali Abbas

Bashir Ali Abbas is a Research Associate at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research, New Delhi, and is involved in organizing the Chao Track India-Pakistan Dialogue at the Track-II level. Presently, he is also a Network for Advanced Studies on Pakistan (NASP) Fellow for 2023-24 at the Takshashila Institution, Bangalore. His research principally focuses on conflict resolution, strategic issues, violent non-state actors, international law, and hard security issues relevant to India's foreign policy. He writes for The Diplomat, the Observer Research Foundation, and other platforms/institutes, on military, political, and strategic issues.