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Muhammad Waqas Sajjad


Areas of Research:

India (Internal); Bangladesh and other South Asian Countries (both Internal & External)


M. Waqas Sajjad is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, with an interest in the history and culture of Islam in South Asia. Currently, he is completing his dissertation on contemporary Deobandi and Barelvi discourses in Pakistan.

Twitter Senior Research Fellow

Issue Brief on “India-Bangladesh Loan Deal”

On October 4, 2017, Bangladesh and India signed a line of credit (LoC) agreement worth $4.5 billion. The deal had already been announced several...

Issue Brief on ” The Deteriorating State of the Indian Economy”

On September 27, senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha severely criticized the economic policies of the ruling BJP government in a...

Issue Brief on “Boosting Pakistan’s Exports: What Needs to Be Done”

Major Exports and Destinations Official figures from the 2017 Economic Survey of Pakistan, published by the Ministry of Finance show that between July 2016...

Issue Brief on “Bangladesh and the Rohingya Refugees”

After days of international pressure to address the situation of the Rohingya in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, and recognize the human rights abuses...