Articles in Courtesy: Aakrosh
Assessing ISIS’s Emergence as a Prime Threat in SAARC Countries
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 22 Feb , 2016
In recent days, the South Asian news media has been inundated with reports suggesting that terrorists aligned with the socalled Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are emerging in some member...
Expansionist Designs of ISIS
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 09 Feb , 2016
ISIS has clearly declared its intentions of formal expansion into the notional region of ‘Khorasan’ that includes Afghanistan-Pakistan and large parts of India, including Kashmir. ISIS has...
India-Pakistan Relations in the Current Environment: The Way Ahead
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 15 Dec , 2015
The world is concerned as relations between two nuclear powers, i.e., India and Pakistan, are deteriorating. Pakistan, which has launched a low-intensity war against India, constantly infiltrates...
Why the rise of ISIS: Evolution and future of Middle East
By: Dr Ashok Kapur | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 27 Nov , 2015
The Middle East is in turmoil. America had the economic and military resources and the confidence, as well as the ambition, to expand its presence and influence, and with this in mind, it...
Constituents of Strategic Communications of the Islamic State?
By: V. Balasubramaniyan & V. Hariharan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Nov , 2015
The Islamic State has been making steady progress on various military fronts. Concomitant with this rise, there has been a drastic upsurge in the Islamic State’s propaganda abilities. The...
New Jihadi Threats to India: Changing Dynamics of Proxy War
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 16 Nov , 2015
The advent of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Af-Pak has added a new, dangerous threat to Kashmir and contiguous areas. The continuous aggression witnessed at the LOC and...
Al-Qaeda in India and Bangladesh
By: Nilofar Suhrawardy | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Oct , 2015
Over the past one year, now and then, ‘news’ about al-Qaeda, a global militant group, planning to spread its branches in the Indian subcontinent has circulated. Lately, the Indian wing of...
Inside Pakistan
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 12 Sep , 2015
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was a Shia and about 30–35 million people in Pakistan are Shias, but as fundamentalism has grown, a few extremist Sunni...
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...
Growth of Fundamentalism in Pakistan and Its Repercussions
By: Jai Kumar Verma | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 May , 2015
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was created in the name of Islam, but Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, wanted a secular Muslim state and not a theocratic Islamic state controlled...
ISIS: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Rene Wadlow | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 May , 2015
When the Allied forces landed in North Africa in 1942, Winston Churchill was asked if this was the beginning of the end of the Axis. He replied to the effect that it was perhaps not the beginning...
US drawdown from Afghanistan and Its Implications
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Mar , 2015
Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf made a far-fetched and sweeping generalisation when he stated, ‘The worst blunder for the US would be to quit Afghanistan without winning, in...
Threats to India in the coming years
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 07 Mar , 2015
Disturbed internal conditions in most countries of South Asia can be attributed mainly to unabated terrorist activities and organised crime. India has been facing sporadic communal, ethnic and...
US Policy: Time to spell out a South Asia Policy
By: Ramtanu Maitra | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 12 Feb , 2015
India is not sitting idle any longer and has begun to initiate moves to have its presence felt in the South Asian countries, barring Pakistan. Under the new administration led by Prime Minister...
Turbulence in South and West Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Feb , 2015
Increase in cross-border firing, attempts to attack coastal areas and targeting army camps in Kashmir show a new aggressive posture of the Pakistan army. The dramatic rise of the Islamic State in...
US fails to stabilise a disturbed West Asia
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Nov , 2014
Over the decades, US policy across West Asia has been devoid of vision and foresight. President Obama has recently conceded that his administration does not have a strategy to combat the ISIS....
Dark Shadow of Wahhabi Groups Across Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Nov , 2014
Ayman al Zawahiri’s declaration that al-Qaeda was opening an office in the Indian subcontinent poses a significant threat to India and other countries of the region. India needs to reassess the...
Wahhabism in South Asia
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 13 Sep , 2014
A few decades ago, a few Muslims followed this brand ofIslam in South Asia, but after the advent of al-Qaeda, Wahhabism spread and Militant Islamist groups spread the theology of Wahhabism, which...
The Re-Emergence of Fundamentalist Forces
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 Aug , 2014
Capture of large parts of Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and declaration of establishing a Caliphate signals the start of a new phase of expansion of a powerful Sunni...
Impact of Talibanisation
By: Alok Bansal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 10 Jul , 2014
The most serious implication of this onward march of the Taliban has been the radicalisation of Pakistan’s armed forces. As the armed forces draw their manpower from the same society, its...