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- Title
War on Terror and Pakistan's Policies towards Militancy.
- Authors
Islam, Saiful; Zubair, Muhammad; Bashir, Faiza
- Abstract
The weak border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and old administrative structure in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (generally called FATA or shortly tribal areas), made this region a hub of international militant organizations during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. After the 9/11, the tribal areas remained the focus of world attention for the security threat to the world in general and the region in particular. To make the rest of the country more secure, Pakistan army launched military operations against the foreign militants in the tribal areas. The government then struck peace agreements with them in the following years as well as the military operations continued in different parts of FATA against militants. National Action Plan (NAP) was the final step towards combating militancy. This paper examines the questions: which policy of the government was successful in countering militancy in the tribal areas as well as in the country? Was a comprehensive policy needed to fight against militancy in the country? Primary and secondary sources are incorporated in methodology.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; TERRORISM policy
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p71
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article