No. 97: Pakistan After Bin Laden

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 97
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2011

Following the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden close to Islamabad, Pakistan's role in counterterrorism needs to be assessed ever more critically. The country has actively targeted jihadist groups that threaten its own interests, while being slow to act against militants who threaten Western interests in South Asia. Despite large amounts of US financial and military aid, the country's security establishment continues to nurture anti-US sentiments. Although Washington has no easy solutions, it can insist that further aid to Pakistan will be conditional upon progress in combating international, and not just domestic, terrorism.

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Radicalised Islamic Groups in Pakistan and their Main Targets