Crypto…Terrorism?
Whilst the onset of the digital age and the subsequent rise of cryptocurrencies has heralded an era of exciting innovation, it has also brought...
Military Might Isn’t the Key to TTP’s Eradication
The terrorist attack on APS Peshawar in KPK on 16 Dec 2014 not only brought all the political parties on board but also led...
Potential Threats, Fears and Strategic Analysis
Recently, a scholar from the London School of Economics and the author of an Oxford University Press book on Al-Qaeda, Sajjan Gohel, wrote an...
Why Does TTP still Survive in Pakistan?
On September 6, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacked military check posts in Chitral district in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan government claimed that...
“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road”: The Problem of Religious Terrorism in Northeast Asia
Experts on Political Violence, especially religious terrorism, can easily point to themes by region. In the Middle East, fundamentalist Islamist organizations object to their...
Duplicity of TTP Leadership
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) represents a convoluted paradigm of extremism that has both shocked and appalled the world with its notorious actions. Behind the...
The Spillover effect of Israel-Hamas Conflict and implications for South Asia
With a new phase of violence erupting after Hamas launched surprise attack on Israel, the world has entered into a new phase of polarisation....
The Power Schism between Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) & Jamaat ul Ahrar (JuA)
A conspicuous chasm has emerged between the central echelons of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and one of its pivotal factions, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), stemming from the...
Al-Assad -Xi Jinping: Confronting Turkestan Islamic Party and its relations with ISIS
Perhaps after deep thought on my part about the other hidden reasons, in addition to the declared ones, about the reasons for Syrian President...
Bad Strategies Boost Al-Shabab
There is not much left to debate on the dangerous aspect of al-Shabab’s demonic doctrine that proclaims Islamic values and functions as mindless terrorists...