In this Urdu discussion, Uzair talks to Dr. Kamran Bokhari about his recently-published essay titled “The Long Shadow of Deobandism in South Asia.” This essay is a must-read as it provides a long history about the rise of political Islam in the subcontinent and how it has shaped Pakistan.

Dr. Kamran Bokhari is Director of Analytical Development at the Newlines Institute. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. Bokhari has also served as the Central Asia Studies Course Coordinator at U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. He was a Fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University (2016-18). Dr. Bokhari has also been a Senior Consultant with The World Bank since 2009. He has 15 years of experience in the private sector intelligence space during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis & forecasts.

You can read the full essay here –newlinesmag.com/essays/the-long-s…sm-in-south-asia/