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Profiles 
In the 1980s, when Punjab began to emerge as the most serious threat to national integrity since Independence, he was specially inducted into the State as Inspecter General of Police [Operations] and later elevated to the ranks of Additional Director General of Police, and eventually Director General of Police [DGP]. Within days of taking over as DGP, he mounted ‘Operation Black Thunder’, a critical success in the war against terrorism. In two tenures as DGP Punjab, [May 1988 – December 1990 & November 1991 - December 1995], he led one of the most successful counter-terrorist operations in the history of world terrorism, bringing Punjab from the verge of disintegration to complete normalcy. It was the Punjab Police that spearheaded anti-terrorist operations in the state in a campaign marked by radical strategic innovations. Since his retirement from the Indian Police Service in December 1995, he held, among others the following positions: President, Institute for Conflict Management, and Editor, FAULTLINES: WRITINGS IN CONFLICT & RESOLUTION. Member of the North-East Study Group of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Member of the National Security Advisory Board [NSAB] constituted by the Government of India for the period December 1998 – December 1999, to define the country’s strategic perspectives and policy options on defence and internal security. Security Adviser to the Chief Minister of Gujarat between May 2002 - July 2002. Adviser to the Government of Chhattisgarh on Naxalite matters, April 2006-April 2007. K.P.S. Gill writes extensively on politics, the economy, and governance, with a special focus on internal security and terrorism. He is the author of Knights of Falsehood (1997), and has co-edited (with Dr. Ajai Sahni) Terror & Containment: Perspectives on India’s Internal Security (2001); and The Global Threat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political Linkages (2002).
Editor of the
South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), a weekly service that provides
regular data, assessments and news briefs on terrorism, insurgencies
and sub-conventional warfare, on counter-terrorism responses and
policies, as well as on related economic, political, and social
issues, in the South Asian region.
Dr. Sahni has also collaborated on projects with the United Nations University, specifically, on the UNU project on the Management of Insurgencies; and on the UNU World Governance Survey. He has written extensively on issues relating to conflict and development in South Asia, and has jointly edited (with K.P.S. Gill) Terror & Containment: Perspectives on India’s Internal Security and The Global Threat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political Linkages (2002). He received a Ph.D. from Delhi University with his thesis on Democracy, Dissent & the Right to Information, and has a career that spans both the print and electronic media, as well as research.
The primary focus of his research and documentation activities has been the terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and in Pakistan. He received a doctoral degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for his work on "The United Nations Secretary-General: Diplomacy in Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era". He has published extensively on issues related to terrorism and political violence in South Asia. His writings prominently include:
Dr.
Routray has written extensively in various journals, print media and
on the Internet on terrorism, internal security and democracy. His writings
include, among others:
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