Wajahat Habibullah

Habibullah belongs to a prominent and progressive Taluqdari (Saidanpur taluqa, Barabanki district) family of the United Provinces. He is the son of General Enaith Habibullah, a former commandant of the NDA, Khadakwasla, and Hamida Habibullah, a parliamentarian and educationist. He was Divisional Commissioner of eight districts of the Kashmir Division in the state of Jammu and Kashmir between 1991 and 1993, which was abruptly terminated by a near fatal road accident, while negotiating with militants occupying the Hazratbal shrine in Kashmir. His children Amar Habibullah and Saif Habibullah are prominent businessmen and his wife Shahila Habibullah is a social worker. He was appointed as a member of the World Bank's Info Appeals Board in July 2010. == Education ==

He studied at Welham Boys School then known as Welham prep school and later joined the Doon School at Dehradun, from where he also did his Senior Cambridge in 1961; Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History from St Stephens' College, University of Delhi in 1965; and Master of Arts (History) from University of Delhi in 1967. == Memberships ==

• Member, Advisory Council, Brookings Doha Center • Member, International Advisory Council, Doha, Qatar • Member, Advisory Council, USIP Education and Training Center, Washington DC • Chairman, Board of Governors, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar (J&K) == Awards ==

• Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Secularism-1994 • Gold Medal for Distinguished Service; Governor of Jammu & Kashmir-1996 • Lala Ram Mohan History Award; Delhi University-1967 == Publications ==

• The Problem Kashmir Today, a Symposium on a Troubled State; Seminar 392-April 1992, New Delhi • Kashmir 1947; Burdens of the Past, Options for the Future: Five Perspectives; Offprint from the Center for Asian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, 1997 • Kashmir, Rajiv Gandhi's India Vol. I Politics Ch. I the Problem Areas pp. 58–60, UBSP • The Islands, Rajiv Gandhi's India Vol. I Politics, Ch. II The Geographic Periphery pp. 237–39, UBS Publishers, 1998, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, London • Siege: Hazratbal, Kashmir 1993, India Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 July 2002, pp. 73–98, Frank Cass, London • The Protection of Human Rights in a Disturbed Situation, Searching for Common Ground in South Asia. Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm, 2003 pp. 31–42 • The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict, Special Report 121, USIP Washington DC June 2004 • "Kashmiris and the Kashmir Conflict" Review Essay, India Review, Vol 3, No. 3 July 2004, pp. 230–253. Frank Cass, London • "Government to Citizens Relationship in the Changing Economic Scenario", Promise of e-Governance-Operational Challenges ed MP Gupta pp. 1–4, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2004 • "My Kashmir-Conflict and the Prospects of Enduring Peace" USIP Press, Washington DC, May 2008 ==References==