Demographics of suicide terrorism
THE spate of suicide bombings in Pakistan started in earnest in 2002. That year two major suicide attacks were perpetrated, which specifically targeted foreigners. Suicide bombings that were ostensibly aimed…
Making of suicide bombers
There is general consensus about how suicide bombers are brainwashed in religious seminaries. They attack groups belonging to the opposite religious sects and supporters of American interests. But what about…
Case of the BLA and PKK
WITH the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Middle East’s militant landscape has been in the throes of a rapid transformation. Armed groups are under immense pressure to change tactics,…
Dream of political stability
IT is often believed that engineering political stability is the solution to a nation’s economic and security challenges. The idea of this so-called stability is used to justify the suppression…
Moving bombs
IN the post-9/11 scenario, suicide bombing emerged as the deadliest and most popular terrorist strategy adopted by various groups around the world. After 9/11, there was an intensification in both…
Global terrorist threat
THE deadly attack on a concert hall in Moscow last week, which left around 140 people dead, marks the expansion in the terrorist operations of the so-called Khorasan chapter of…
Imran Khan’s resurrection
LIBERAL commentators, once maligned by Imran Khan as “liberal scum” and “bloody liberals”, have nevertheless been fair-minded and have rightly criticised the Feb 8 elections as heavily managed. They are…
Women & militancy
THE ‘war on terror’ radically transformed the affected countries. Religious, sectarian and ethnic conflicts led to the collapse of social cohesion. In conflicts, women suffer the most, directly and indirectly.…
Persisting TTP threat
THE prevailing political and economic instability in the country offers perfect conditions for terrorist networks to grow and strengthen themselves. As persisting political turmoil dominates the mainstream discourse, terrorist groups…
Lethal numbers
PALESTINIAN groups and the LTTE attracted global attention when they adopted suicide bombing (SB) as an effective weapon of warfare but the 9/11 suicide attacks changed the dynamics of terrorism.…
