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Fragile States Index 2016
FSI and South Asia
Monish Gulati. · 10 Oct, 2016 · #5149 · Commentary
The Fragile States Index (FSI) is an annual ranking
of 178 nations, conceived with the core notion that weak and failing states
pose a challenge to the international community and in a highly interconnected
world, ‘pressures’ on one ...
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The Myth of Home-Grown Terror-I
Mapping out the Dhaka Gulshan Attack
Angshuman Choudhury. · 19 Jul, 2016 · #5087 · Commentary
The current narrative of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) surrounding the 1 July terror attack at Dhaka’s Gulshan area is premised on the assumption that there is no presence of the Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh. The attack was directly ...
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Indus-tan
Forecast 2016: Another Year at the Crossroads for Pakistan
Sushant Sareen. · 21 Jan, 2016 · #4966 · Commentary
Much like in all the previous 67 years of its existence, Pakistan finds itself on the crossroads even in the 68th year. The good things that happened in 2015 on the economic, security, diplomatic and political fronts are fragile and not irreversi ...
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Joint IPCS-Oval Observer Round-Table
Discussion Report: India’s Role in Building a Counter-Narrative to Isis Propaganda
Report. · 16 Dec, 2015 · #4945 · Commentary
On 9 December 2015, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the Oval Observer Foundation, conducted a round-table discussion, titled ‘India’s Role in Building a Counter-Narrative to ISIS Propaganda&rsqu ...
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Islamic State in Af-Pak: The �Wilayat Khurasan� Conundrum
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy. · 04 Mar, 2015 · #4847 · Commentary
In January 2015, the Islamic State (IS), in a statement, called on the militants operating in the Af-Pak region to pledge their allegiance to their chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his ‘Caliphate’. They declared ‘Wilayat Khurasan&rs ...
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Dateline Islamabad
Pakistan's Hurt Locker: What Next?
Salma Malik. · 18 Feb, 2015 · #4837 · Commentary
A year ago, the morning of 7 January 2014 started as an average routine day for the children of Ibrahimzai village in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, few minutes later, 14-year-old Aitzaz Hasan, prevented a suicide bombing attack on the school, ...
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Pakistan, Militancy and the New Paradigm
Will the Genie Want to Go Back?
D Suba Chandran. · 29 Jan, 2015 · #4820 · Commentary
Ever since the horrible attack on school children in Peshawar, there have been a series of measures within Pakistan in responding to militancy. A National Plan has been prepared; military courts have been constitutionally set up to deal with the mi ...
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IPCS Forecast: Islamic State in 2015
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy. · 19 Jan, 2015 · #4814 · Commentary
In 2014, the world, already engaged in the tedious task of controlling and eliminating several religious radical terrorist groups, came face to face with a new and more brutal terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). This group has proven itself to ...
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Red Affairs
IPCS Forecast: Left-wing Extremism in 2015
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 19 Jan, 2015 · #4813 · Commentary
This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Red Affairs', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Left-wing Extremism in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series.
Click here to read the full report .
At the onset of 2015, ...
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Pakistan
And Now, They Are Coming For Our Children
D Suba Chandran. · 18 Dec, 2014 · #4783 · Commentary
Can the Taliban become any further barbaric than this? Targeting a school, and killing more than 130 children?
Children are not only our soul and the most precious of our existence, but also our future – individual and collective. Childr ...
