Articles By Dr V Balasubramaniyan
Islamic State in Khorasan Province’s Central Asia Outreach: Its Potential...
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 38.1, Jan-Mar 2023 | Date: 29 Apr , 2023
In the last few years, Chinese interests in Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) region have come under repeated terrorist attacks. These attacks have not been carried out by the East Turkistan Islamic...
Pakistan’s Action Against Terrorist Groups – Is it Sincere or a Complete...
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 37.3, Jul-Sep 2022 | Date: 17 Oct , 2022
One of the key architects of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, Sajid Mir was ‘silently’ convicted in May this year by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore in a terrorism financing case. Mir known as the...
Is Pakistan Reinventing its Kashmir Strategy?
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2022
Pakistan appears to have been trying to reinvent its efforts to politicize and internationalize Jammu & Kashmir issue. The present Pakistani strategy appears to have adopted a more global...
Rising Jihadist Recidivism in Tamil Nadu: A Red Flag
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 35.4 Oct-Dec 2020 | Date: 15 Dec , 2020
On 08 January 2020, two alleged terrorists inspired by the Islamic State1, Abdul Shameem and Y Thowfeek, shot and killed Wilson, a Special Sub Inspector of Tamil Nadu Police at Kaliyakavalai,...
Emerging Threat of Grassroots Terrorism and Lone Wolf Actors in India
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 31.4 Oct-Dec 2016 | Date: 20 Dec , 2016
Grassroots terrorism which is defined as organisational de-evolution of terrorist groups into single actor or small actor networks is one of the recent phenomena witnessed in larger and older...
Islamic State: The New Brand of Terrorism in India
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 31.2 Apr-Jun 2016 | Date: 11 Aug , 2016
Competition among fundamentalist groups could push each of them to outdo others who would evolve in a constant state of ‘one-upmanship’. There are already strong indications of such a threat...
Splintering Naxalism in India: Maoism or Money?
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Vol. 30.4 Oct-Dec 2015 | Date: 31 Jan , 2016
Inter-group rivalry has a multi-dimensional impact both at strategic and tactical levels. These groups rewrite state boundaries as they attempt to control areas under different states, thus...
Kidnap for Ransom and Linkages to Terrorism Finance in India
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 23 Jun , 2015
India’s tryst with contemporary terrorism started with the birth of the Khalistani movement in Punjab, which was followed by insurgency in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On the other...