North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
Taliban and Weapons of Mass Disruption Threat
The article analyses the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s threat of use of chemical weapons inside Pakistan. It looks at the recent such instance of possible low scale use of chemical agents and argues that the recent threat is more of tactical nature.
From FATA to South Punjab: The Looming Leap of Islamic Radicalism in Pakistan
A disturbing aspect of the current phase of Islamist militancy in Pakistan is that the terrorist acts outside FATA and NWFP are not being staged by ethnic Pashtun elements but by local Punjabi cohorts.
The Pakistani Taliban: An existential or a passing threat ?
Pakistan’s ability to press home a multidimensional campaign against the radical forces, and contain domestic instability and economic downturn, is suspect.
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis May 2009
The month of May 2009 was the most violent month in Pakistan in the last five years.
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis April 2009
April saw the foot soldiers of Taliban moving to Buner and Dir, after consolidating their position in Swat.
Tackling or Trailing the Taliban : An Assessment
Due to the long and porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the situation in the region could worsen with Taliban groups from both sides joining hands to fight the US and Pakistani forces
Seizing the moment: India and the ‘moderate Taliban’
The Taliban is doubtless a menace and requires to be combated.
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis March 2009
Consequent to the peace deals signed by the Pakistani state with Taliban, the number of terror-related incidents in March came down in regions, which have been afflicted with violence in the recent pa
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis February 2009
Highlight of the month was the peace deal signed by the NWFP government with the founder of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e- Mohammadi (TNSM), Sufi Mohammad.
