Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, is a former Director-General of Assam Rifles and Chairman of the Cease Fire Monitoring Group. Commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles in 1979, he has extensive experience in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in Kashmir and the Northeast. He was also the founder member of the Indian Army’s public information outreach. A respected scholar and strategic thinker, he holds a PhD on Indo-Nepal relations, authored “Bridging Borders,” and is a frequent speaker at national and international forums. He was also the Defence Attaché to Nepal.