Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1. Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Inspired Secular-Liberal Democracy?
Usama Butt

Chapter 2. Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Response
Ishtiaq Ahmed

Chapter 3. The Economic Cost of Extremism
Sartaj Aziz

Chapter 4. Insurrection, Terrorism, and the Pakistan Army
Brian Cloughley

Chapter 5. The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al Qaeda in Pakistan?
N Elahi

Chapter 6. Al Qaeda: The Threat from Tribal Pakistan
Rohan Gunaratna

Chapter 7. Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Assets
Rabia Akhtar and Nazir Hussain

Chapter 8. Politics of IDPs: A fall out of Politics of Domestic and Foreign Actors
Sajjad Naseer

Chapter 9. The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of Pakistan
Julian Schofield

Chapter 10.  "We are the Soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban and the Ideology of Terror
Simon R Valentine

Chapter 11. Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in Pakistan
Samina Yasmeen

Epilogue
Usama Butt

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International experts analyze Pakistan's security and insurgency issues, looking at the threats posed to and by this nuclear-armed Islamic nation.

About the Author

Usama Butt is a political and security researcher/analyst based in the UK. An op-ed columnist at Khaleej times, he has written for many other newspapers & blogs in the UK, Middle East and Pakistan. His specialties lie in global Islamist movements and Middle Eastern/South Asian region. N. Elahi is Honorary Director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

Reviews

"Pakistan's Quagmire encapsulates Pakistan's current problems and their genesis. It offers a detailed read on issues that occupy considerable space even outside Pakistan such as the army's omni-present role, the Islamists, the existential threat at the hands of al Qaeda and Tehrike Taliban Pakistan, and also puts fears of an Islamist or military re-takeover in a realistic perspective. It is a useful guide and analysis on the present day Pakistan for those interested in this turbulent region." --Imtiaz Gul, author of The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier