The death of the Taliban supremo, Mullah Omar, has finally been confirmed by a spokesman for Afghanistan’s security services last month in July, 2015, putting all speculations...
Mustafa Malik
Governance Community And Religion
As part of its counter-radicalization advocacy campaign for the promotion of secular governance and democratic values, the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in...
Marked Decrease in Karachi Violence: CRSS Security Report
Below is a report published by The News, the largest English-language Pakistani newspaper, on the CRSS quarterly security report released early this month. The report, based on...
Of Judicial Commissions & Democratic Evolutions
Major Western democracies — despite many socio-political shortcomings, not alien to human society at large — stand out for continued democratic exercise and incessant...
In Pakistan Execution Drive, Militants are a Minority
When Pakistan resumed executions after the massacre of 134 pupils at Peshawar’s Army Public School last December, the government promised hangings would help deter Islamist...
Will Narratives Change?
Ashraf Ghani finds himself pitched against deeply-entrenched beliefs about Pakistan in Afghanistan’s security establishment. The July 12 suicide car bombing near a military base...
Q2 Security Report – 2015
Second Quarter 2015 - Introduction A year after the Pakistani military launched the multi-pronged counter-terror Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the North Waziristan region, and nearly...
Terrorism hits Foreign Investment in Pakistan
Empirical studies conducted by independent economists suggest that a slight uptick in the “perceived risk of terrorism” can lead to an “outsized reduction” in the FDI that a...
The Terrorism Debate: Flogging the Wrong Horse
Pakistan’s current debate on terrorism apparently suffers from an acute lack of understanding of the real issues that lie at the heart of its security crisis. Much of the...
‘Find, Fix, Finish’
Few innovations in modern warfare have seduced US presidents as thoroughly as the Predator drone, upstaged in more recent years by its bigger and even deadlier cousin, the...
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