South Asia

Kashmir’s Militants May Derail India-Pakistan Negotiations

March 11, 2010

Islamist terrorism in South Asia, the epicenter of global terrorism, thrives on lasting India-Pakistan enmity. Pakistan would have no interest in using jihad as an instrument of its defense policy in a conflict-free South Asia....

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Military/Security, South Asia

Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy and the Tribesmen’s Perspective

March 11, 2010

This paper provides an analysis of Pakistan's policy on unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”) attacks in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and how these attacks are perceived by students from Waziristan, the...

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Military/Security, South Asia

The Indian Navy’s Agenda for Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean

February 26, 2010

The 2010 U.S. Quadrennial Defense Review noted that "India has already established its worldwide military influence through counter-piracy, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief efforts. As its military...

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Military/Security, South Asia

Pakistani Taliban Display Effectiveness of their Intelligence Network with Attack on U.S. Special Forces

February 19, 2010

Following the Afghan Taliban intelligence coup that led to the late December suicide-bombing at an American base in Khost province that killed seven CIA agents, Pakistan’s Taliban have apparently scored an intelligence success of...

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Terrorism, Military/Security, South Asia, Featured

Pakistani Responses to the CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda

February 19, 2010

Conventional wisdom in the West seems to have coalesced around the notion that the CIA’s airborne assassination campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s remote FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) is driving...

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Terrorism, South Asia, Military/Security

Bajaur Agency: The New Landscape of Insurgency in FATA

February 12, 2010

Amid conflicting reports that Pakistani Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mahsud has succumbed to his injuries after being targeted in a U.S. drone attack last month, there is also news that the deputy chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban...

Category: Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Terrorism, South Asia, Terrorism Monitor

Jihad and Islamism in the Maldive Islands

February 12, 2010

Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed admitted in October, 2009 that hundreds of Maldivian Muslims had been recruited by Pakistan-based terrorist groups and are presently fighting against government forces in Pakistan. [1] The...

Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Terrorism, South Asia

Moscow Remembers the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

February 11, 2010

In late December 2009, the Russian press carried numerous articles reflecting on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and its impact on the fate of the Soviet Union. On December 25, the State Duma adopted a statement on the...

Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Military/Security, Russia, Afghanistan

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Pakistan's Troubled Frontier

April 6, 2009 11:39 AM

First demarcated in 1893 by British diplomat Sir Mortimer Durand, the northwest frontier was created when the “Durand Line” imposed an artificial border between the tribal Pashtun communities of moder...


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