EFSAS Research Fellows

Mr. Burzine Waghmar

Affiliated with the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Burzine Waghmar is a Librarian for South Asia & Indo-Iranian Languages, and former editor of the Circle of Inner Asian Art newsletter. At SOAS he holds affiliations with the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI), Centre for the Study of Pakistan (CSP) and Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS).

As consultant, commentator and external auditor, Burzine Waghmar's oral expertise (radio, TV) and written submissions (commissioned reports, depositions, briefings) range over the cultural history, religions, and socio-political conditions of minorities (both confessional and ethno-linguistic) of the subcontinent, with particular focuses on HUMINT (intelligence, insurgency and counter-terrorism) across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, for: the U.S. National Intelligence Council; Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO); Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), UK; Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), UK; Ministry of Defence Languages Examination Board (MODLEB), UK; International Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS), London; HSBC Holdings, UK; BBC News 24, BBC World TV, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service; Channel 4, UK; Al-Jazeera English (AJE), Qatar; Press TV, Iran; Times NOW TV, India; Republic TV, India; and Voice of America (VOA).

Besides French, German, Italian, Persian and Russian, his reading and research skills of the SAARC sphere incorporate Urdu, Pashto, Balochi, Kashmiri, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and those Indo-Iranian dialects and communities along the Irano-Pak, Sino-Pak and Af-Pak borders (Balochistan, Trans-Karakoram Tract, Gilgit-Baltistan/Northern Areas, NWFP/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, FATA).

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Contributions

Here you will find contributions by Mr. Burzine Waghmar, Fellow at EFSAS. 

• 'Parsing Pakistan’s green books 2020' - Article published in The Sunday Guardian

• Speech of Mr. Burzine Waghmar (SOAS) during EFSAS Panel Discussion at Erasmus University

• Speech of Mr. Burzine Waghmar (SOAS) during EFSAS Seminar in EU Parliament

• Speech of Mr. Burzine Waghmar during EFSAS Side-event at the 36th Session of the UNHRC

• Mr. Burzine Waghmar (EFSAS Research Fellow) speaking to BBC Radio on tensions between Iran and US

• Obituary on Dr. Shirin Akiner, Sr. Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at SOAS

• Mr. Burzine Waghmar discussing Chinese Consulate Karachi Attack and CPEC on BBC Radio 4

• Mr. Burzine Waghmar’s observations during the live election blog at Bloomberg News on July 26, 2018

• Mr. Burzine Waghmar's Bloomberg News, Karachi interview, April 18, 2018:"Sharif is a spent force"

• Speech of Mr. Burzine Waghmar (EFSAS Fellow) at Royal Asiatic Society, London on December 15, 2017

• Lecture delivered by Mr. Burzine Waghmar at House of Lords, UK Parliament, London on July 19, 2017

• Mr. Burzine Waghmar: "Pakistan's statehood is based on a fragile framework with no national basis in which Pakistani military acts with no legitimacy and with violence against local populations"

• Bombay chai : cheerless cuppa for Kashmiris

• 'Repressing Pakistan: Oppressed Balochistan, Suppressed Sovereignty' (Conference organized by UNPO during UNHRC, Geneva in March 2016)

• Research Paper: 'Burning Balochistan: Bombay blowback and Pakistani Perfidy' (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization-UNPO Report) 

• 'Beleaguered Balochs: Muslim Republics Murdering Muslim Minorities' (Conference organized by UNPO during UNHR, Geneva in March 2014.

All views expressed are of the author and do not necessarily coincide with the views held by EFSAS