The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Pakistan’s Tribal Regions
Few places in the world have assumed as much importance for the United States and its allies since 2001 as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal regions, which have served as a base for the mix of militants seeking to attack the governments, militaries, and civilians of the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others. In just over half ...
Few places in the world have assumed as much importance for the United States and its allies since 2001 as Pakistan's northwestern tribal regions, which have served as a base for the mix of militants seeking to attack the governments, militaries, and civilians of the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others. In just over half of the serious plots against the West since 2004, alleged militants received training at camps in Pakistan.
Few places in the world have assumed as much importance for the United States and its allies since 2001 as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal regions, which have served as a base for the mix of militants seeking to attack the governments, militaries, and civilians of the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others. In just over half of the serious plots against the West since 2004, alleged militants received training at camps in Pakistan.
Today, the New America Foundation‘s Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative and Foreign Policy magazine hosted an event for the launch of a unique series of policy papers, "The Battle for Pakistan," written by local Pakistani researchers and other experts on politics and militancy in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The New America Foundation is also pleased to present a series of detailed maps of Pakistan’s tribal areas, "Mapping the Battle for Pakistan." Maps of each tribal agency and the Swat Valley are available on the pages below.
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict Across the FATA and NWFP by Brian Fishman (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in South Waziristan by Mansur Khan Mahsud (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in North Waziristan by Anand Gopal, Mansur Khan Mahsud, and Brian Fishman (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Kurram by Mansur Khan Mahsud (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Khyber by Raheel Khan (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Mohmand by Raza Khan (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Bajaur by Rahmanullah (Map)
- The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Swat by Daud Khan Khattak (Map)
- Inside Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province: The Political Landscape of the Insurgency by Hassan Abbas
- Al-Qaeda’s Allies: Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Taliban Factions After 2001 by Anne Stenersen
- Financing the Taliban: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Catherine Collins with Ashraf Ali
- Pakistan’s COIN Flip: The Recent History of Pakistani Military Counterinsurgency Operations in the NWFP and FATA by Sameer Lalwani
Stay tuned… Orakzai by Raheel Khan; Dir by Manzoor Ali; Frontier Regions by Khalid Kheshgi Khan.
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