South Asia
Kashmir’s Militants May Derail India-Pakistan Negotiations
March 11, 2010Islamist 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....
Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy and the Tribesmen’s Perspective
March 11, 2010This 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Moscow Remembers the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
February 11, 2010In 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...
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Pakistan's Troubled Frontier
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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...