DR. SYED RIFAAT HUSSAIN

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Dr Syed Riffat Hussain is Professor and Head of Department of Government and Public Policy in School of Social Sciences and Humanities at National University Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

He has been Chair of the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and also served as the Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the National University in Islamabad

He served as the Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka

He has also taught at the Political Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA.

Dr Riffat Hussain is the author of numerous books and publications, including Afghanistan and 9/11: The Anatomy of a Conflict (2002); From Dependence to Intervention: Soviet-Afghanistan Relations During the Brezhnev Era (1964-1982)(1994); “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): An Elusive Quest for a “homeland” “Pakistan’s Changing Outlook on Kashmir,” in South Asian Survey.