Ajai Sahni
{{Short description|Indian counter-terrorist expert}}
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Ajai Sahni is an author on counter-terrorism, a founding member{{cite web |title=Ajai Sahni |url=https://www.mei.edu/profile/ajai-sahni |website=Middle East Institute |access-date=1 August 2023}} and as of 2023, Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, which maintains the South Asia Terrorism Portal, a website that provides comprehensive information on terrorism, low-intensity warfare, and sectarian strife in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.{{cite web|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/icm/Profiles.htm#researcher |title=South Asian Terrorism Portal - profiles |publisher=Satp.org |date=2001-01-13 |accessdate=2010-02-17| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100218032729/http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/icm/Profiles.htm| archivedate= 18 February 2010 | url-status= live}}
Background
Sahni earned his PhD at the University of Delhi, where his dissertation was titled Democracy, Dissent & the Right to Information.
In 2006, Ajai Sahni submitted written evidence to the UK House of Commons, Select Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding Islamic terrorism in South Asia which is available on the House of Commons' website.[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmfaff/55/55we16.htm THE CORE OF ISLAMIST TERROR], House of Commons, 2006-10-29
In February 2009, Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, included Sahni in a panel of leading experts debating how to combat global terrorism with UK Parliamentarians.[http://emmanicholson.info/european-parliament/leading-experts-debate-combating-global-terrorism-with-uk-parliamentarians.html Leading experts debate combating global terrorism with UK Parliamentarians] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410021834/http://emmanicholson.info/european-parliament/leading-experts-debate-combating-global-terrorism-with-uk-parliamentarians.html |date=10 April 2009 }}[http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/february-2009/mumbai-could-have-been-a-small-incident-anti-terror-expert/ Mumbai could have been a small incident: anti-terror expert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908000520/http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/february-2009/mumbai-could-have-been-a-small-incident-anti-terror-expert/ |date=8 September 2009 }}, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Sahni also edits 'South Asia Intelligence Review' and 'Faultlines'.
Political position
After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Sahni criticized the Indian government. Madhur Singh, writing in Time, quoted Sahni "We have such an incoherent and incapable leadership, and across all political parties. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to understand the scale of the challenge, he doesn't seem to carry the weight with his own Cabinet colleagues. And the irrational opposition has been blocking all forward-looking steps, irrespective of national interest."[https://web.archive.org/web/20081212012937/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1865554,00.html Botched Mumbai Arrest Highlights India's Intel Failures], Time, 2008-12-10
References
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External links
- [http://www.satp.org/ South Asia Terrorism Portal]
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Category:Counterterrorism in India