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Originally posted in Hindustan Times
Pakistan’s reliance on terror as an instrument of foreign policy has backfired, and its role as a perpetrator of terrorism is now beyond doubt, experts and academics told a seminar here.
The seminar, organised by The Democracy Forum …
By Patrick Benjamin
On the 7th of July, by kind invitation of Lord Arbuthnot, the Henry Jackson Society was addressed by Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Anna Mikhailova, journalist and co-author on his recent book From Banking to …
TIME: 18:00-19:00, Thursday 7th July 2016
VENUE: Committee Room 2A, House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
SPEAKERS: Co-authors, From Banking to the Thorny World of Politics, Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007) and Anna Mikhailova, Journalist and Interviewer for The …
Originally published in The Evening Standard.
A London preacher and his friend sparked outrage today by praising a fanatic who murdered a Pakistani politician for criticising the country’s strict Islamic laws.
Former imam Qari Mahmood, 38, and Khalid Iqbal Malik, 43, who attend …
Originally published in The Daily Express
On MONDAY two civilians died among the dozens taken hostage by a Muslim gunman in a coffee shop in Sydney. On Tuesday a gang of uniformed gunmen massacred 132 children and nine others at a school …
Originally posted in the Spectator
Yesterday it was Sydney. Today it is Peshawar. Yesterday a coffee shop. Today a school. Yesterday a lone gunman. Today a gang of them. If anybody wondered about the global and diffuse nature of the challenge that …
Originally published in the Huffington Post
‘There has been understandable focus in recent months on events in Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State. Yet we must not forget that al-Qaeda – still the most prominent terrorist network out there …
Religious minorities in Pakistan continue to live in fear under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws and mob violence. The latest victim is an 11-year-old Christian girl with Down’s syndrome, who could face the death penalty under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
Dr Paul …
Just in case Abu Qatada is feeling especially embattled after creating another media storm this week, he may be happy to know that his pals in al-Qaeda have not forgotten about him. Al-Qaeda central and two of its franchises – …
Posted in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Terrorism & Security, The Scoop, United Kingdom
The Taliban have confirmed that they will be setting up a liaison office in Qatar—a measure accepted by President Hamid Karzai after facing pressure from the US—to aide future peace negotiations with the international community.
For the American’s and Afghans, the …
Carrying on from my theme of legal sideshows in the War on Terror: today, Tablighi Jamaat (TJ).
Tablighi Jamaat is essentially an organisation of travelling Muslim preachers who seek to revive a highly conservative form of Islam and encourage Muslims to live …
Maryam (not her real name) was 15 when her mother took her and her younger sister on holiday to Pakistan. Once there, they were married, against their will, to their first cousins. Maryam’s mother told her that if she didn’t …
Posted in Human Rights, Pakistan, Religious Fundamentalism, United Kingdom
Radio Free Europe has published a fascinating profile of Veena Malik, the outspoken Pakistani actress who famously challenged a sanctimonious cleric on a current affairs programme in Pakistan earlier this year. The video, which brought Malik international attention, is tremendous: Malik launches a …
Posted in Human Rights, Media, Pakistan, Religious Fundamentalism, The Scoop
US officials claim a senior figure in al-Qaeda central command, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in a drone attack in the Waziristan region in Pakistan in the last few days.
There has been no independent confirmation of the Saudi Arabian national’s …
Is the end near for terrorism as we know it? According to a much-discussed Washington Post article that ran on July 26, U.S. counterterrorism officials believe that, after the death of Osama bin Laden and in the face of sustained drone attacks, Al …
Posted in Pakistan, Terrorism & Security, United States
The Washington Post has a fascinating article on the suspected impact of the killing of Osama bin Laden as well as the last seven years of drone attacks on the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
U.S. counterterrorism officials believe they are close to …
Pakistan wants the world to know that it is finally cracking down on Islamist extremists — at least, some of them. Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, approved the arrest last month of Brig. Gen. Ali Khan for links to the proscribed …
Posted in Islamism, Pakistan, Religious Fundamentalism, United Kingdom, United States
Indian authorities deemed that a map of Kashmir published in The Economist as controversial.
The Economist was forced to cover the map, featured alongside an article on Kashmir, before nationwide distribution.
Why? Because it did not show that the whole of Kashmir – administered …
I have a piece in The New Republic today about President Obama’s hawkish national security policy. The ruthlessness he has displayed in Pakistan has been the clearest manifestation of this.
Obama has approved approximately 180 lethal U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan against jihadist terrorists since …
Today’s devastating suicide bombing at the training centre for the Frontier Constabulary in Charsadda, Pakistan underscores the murderous price the Taliban and its affiliates have exacted on the Pakistani people. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which they claimed was …
Posted in Islamism, Pakistan, Terrorism & Security, The Scoop
Houriya Ahmed, George Grant and Julia Pettengill are looking at the implications of the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Posted in Briefing, Pakistan, Terrorism & Security, United Kingdom
While it may seem an intimidating task to sift through the reams of fascinating information emerging from bin Laden’s recent assassination, one article certainly worth making time for is Steve Coll’s latest in The New Yorker.
Coll speculates that ‘bin Laden was …
The Henry Jackson Society was pleased to host a discussion with Ammara Durrani, a noted journalist and Pakistani Public Diplomacy official. Ms. Durrani gave an in-depth analysis of the performance over the past two years of Pakistan’s new democratic government. …
Posted in Democracy & Development, Event, Pakistan, Terrorism & Security
By kind invitation of Bernard Jenkin MP, the Henry Jackson Society was pleased to host Pakistani political activist, and former world cricket champion, Mr Imran Khan. Mr Khan spoke on the issue of Pakistani politics being both in a state …
Posted in Democracy & Development, Event, Pakistan