“This could increase the recruitment of individuals who’d be willing to blow themselves up in American cities or European cities,” Obama remarked.23 As if Obama’s foreign policy—predator drone attacks that kill civilians in Pakistan, bombings of wedding parties in Afghanistan, the..…

More often than not, Pakistan’s current situation is blithely understood as the necessary consequence of its origins in a religious ideology, and any serious investigation of the nation’s social and political dynamics are summarily reduced to the equation of Pakistan with that baggy term,..…

At the time, Pakistan, flush with arms and militants it was recruiting and training for American-sponsored resistance to Soviet of Afghanistan, began recruiting Kashmir to jihadi outfits, sending Islamist groups into Kashmir, and providing weapons and training to secular groups .. ..…

And during General Musharraf's third law from 1999 to 2008, Pakistan's establishment made volte-face under American pressure and declared war against its jihadist proxies that kindled the fire of in the tribal areas of Pakistan... ... The last two parliamentary elections were, in..…

There is evidence that a former Qatari minister of the interior invited the leading Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in the mid-1990s to move from Bosnia, where KSM was fighting, to come live in Qatar.[14] KSM accepted this offer, moved to Qatar and lived there a couple of years before he was..…

Books on relations between South Asia and United States of America begin with Partition of the sub-continent and the emergence of India and Pakistan as two independent actors at time when American policy was entrenched Cold War predicaments. ... Raghavan's that the history of..…