Shaukat Qadir

Brigadier (ret.) Shaukat Qadir’s career covers teaching at Pakistan’s National Defense College, and co-founding the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) as well as operational commands. In 2001, he sought early retirement due to disagreements with the military government. He has not served in the ISI. Brig. Qadir’s extensive writing on security affairs in South and Central Asia includes a weekly column in the Daily Times (Pakistan) and regular articles for The National. In the past, he has written for the Far Eastern Economic Review, RUSI – Royal United Services Institute (UK), PILDAT – Pakistan Institute for Legislative Development and Transparency, Rediff.com (India), Dawn (Pakistan), and The Round Table Journal,[8] He is currently a Senior Analyst at Wikistrat.[1] Brig. Qadir’s familiarity with Afghanistan derives from extensive experience in a personal as well as professional capacity. In the wake of the Osama bin-Laden elimination in Abbottabad in 2011, he undertook on his own initiative an exploration of OBL’s movements after Tora-Bora and his fateful residence in Abbottabad. That mission took him through the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan and across the MacMahon Line. The resulting study has been published as: OPERATION GERONIMO