This book reviews the terrorist environment in South Asia, concentrating on Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, but also including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. With U.S. led counter terrorism efforts focused especially on Southwest Asia, the existence of international terrorist groups and their supporters in South Asia is identified as a threat to both regional stability and to attainment of control U.S. policy goals. Al Qaeda forces that fled from Afghanistan with their Taliban supporters remain active on Pakistan territory and Al Qaeda is believed to have links with indigenous. Pakistani terrorist groups that have conducted and Western attacks and that support separatist militancy in Indian Kashmir. A significant portion of Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun population is reported to sympathize with the Taliban and even Al Qaeda. The United States maintains close counter terrorism cooperation with Pakistan aimed especially at bolstering security and stability in neighbouring Afghanistan. The Islamabad government began limited military operations in the traditionally autonomous tribal areas of western Pakistan. There are intensifying in coordination with U.S. and Afgan forces just across the international frontier.
Author: Niranjan Dass
ISBN: 81-7533-098-8
Pages: 412
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