Zainab Akhter is Research Analyst – Pak Digest at Manohar Parrikar Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Click here for detailed profile.
Research Assistant Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s chapter ‘Prospects of Multi-Track Diplomacy in India-Pakistan Relation’ has been published in Omkar Bhole and Ratish Mehta’s co-edited book ‘India’s Soft Push for Power in South Asia: Shaping A Favourable Tomorrow’, on 20 May 2024.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s article ‘SAV Explainer: People’s Movement for 6th Schedule for Ladakh’ was published in South Asian Voices, on 22 March 2024.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s article ‘From Wheat Subsidy to Greater Autonomy: ‘Chalo Gilgit’ Movement Raging on’ has been published by International Centre for Peace Studies, on 05 February 2024.
The Chalo Gilgit movement is catching the attention of the people and popular sentiments are hardening in favour of meeting all the 15 demands they are making on the State, says Dr Akhter.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s article ‘PTI’s Hobbled Race for election 2024: The Fight for Survival’ has been published by the International Centre for Peace Studies, on 30 January 2024.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s commentary ‘The Politics of “Wheat-Subsidy” in Gilgit-Baltistan’ has been published by the International Centre for Peace Studies on 15 December 2023.
Research Assistant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s article ‘Climate Change & the Himalayas: Time for a New Sustainable Tourism Strategy’ has been published in the Sunday Special of Rising Kashmir, on 27 August 2023.
The need of the hour is a revised climate policy or a sustainable tourism strategy for the mountain regions, which must impose strict limits on a number of visitors, provide universal basic income to the local population, and invest in ecological restoration. Bhutan-style policy needs to be adopted or these areas will be destroyed, says Dr Akhter.
Research Assistant, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s review of Tilak Devasher’s book ‘The Pashtuns: A Contested History’ has been published in Rising Kashmir Newspaper on 30 April 2023.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Zainab Akhter’s article ‘Assessing the Human Impact of the India-China Border Dispute’ has been published by South Asian Voices (SAV) on 24 October 2022.
Despite assurances by both governments and many rounds of disengagement talks, the LAC remains tense and the stalemate continues, adversely affecting the livelihoods of border dwellers and herders along the border, says Dr Akhter.
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Zainab Akhter’s chapter ‘India-Pakistan Cross LOC Connectivity: Bridging the Gap between Ladakh and Baltistan by Invoking the ‘Balti Culture’ has been published in Ashish Shukla’s Edited Book ‘Gilgit-Balistan Under Pakistan’s Occupation’.
