SUSHANT SAREEN APPRISES GENTLEMEN CADETS OF IMA ABOUT THE BACKGROUND OF KASHMIR AND VARIOUS HISTORIC SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
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DEHRADUN, 14 MAY. Mr Sushant Sareen, a renowned author and Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, with his vast experience in geo-political and strategic affairs, fruitfully engaged the Gentlemen Cadets of the Indian Military Academy in an interesting lecture on ‘Situation in Kashmir’ as part of ‘The Leadership Development Series’ conducted on Saturday.
Mr Sushant Sareen did his master’s in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and later qualified for the Indian Civil Service and joined the Indian Railway Traffic Service in 1993. A year later he resigned from Government and joined Public Opinion Trends, a news agency that monitored news and developments in South Asia. Since then he has been a close observer of the political situation in South Asia, specialising in Pakistan, and by extension terrorism, Kashmir and Afghanistan.
Before joining ORF, he worked as Senior Fellow, at Vivekananda International Foundation, a Consultant with the Pakistan Project of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), Executive Editor, Public Opinion Trends, a news agency that monitored developments in South Asia, Associate Editor, southasianmedia.net, a South Asian news the portal is run by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and Honorary Director, Pakistan Centre at the Observer Research Foundation.
He is the author of the book: "The Jihad Factory – Pakistan's Islamic Revolution in the
Making". He has also authored a number of monographs including on the China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor, the insurgency in Balochistan and Operation Zarb-e-Azb. In addition, he
has contributed chapters for edited volumes and written papers on the situation in Pakistan
and on the India-Pakistan peace process for academic journals and newspapers.
He has lectured at premier institutions like the National Defence College, Defence Services Staff College, Army War College, Naval War College, College of Defence Management, Foreign Service Academy, and the National Police Academy.
In his lecture, Mr Sareen apprised everyone about the background of Kashmir and various significant events from the First India-Pakistan War of 1947-48 to 2019 when Art 370 was amended and 35A was scrapped, leading to the bifurcation of the state and its conversion into UT as well as insight was rendered about the geo-strategic significance of the Kashmir situation.
Mr Sushant Sareen received a standing ovation from the enraptured audience.