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TABLE OF CONTENTS Events in FATA and the NWFP: A Chronology By Mukhtar A. Khan 1 PART I: Origins ofa Crisis: The Red Mosque Siege in Islamabad The Road to Lal Masjid and its Aftermath By Hassan Abbas 18 Pakistan's Radical Red Mosque Returns By Farhana Ali 24 PART II: The Pakistani Taliban: Tehrik-e-Taliban A Who's Who of the Insurgency in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province: Part One - North and South Waziristan By Rahimullah Yusufzai 32 A Who's Who of the Insurgency in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province: Part Two- FATA Excluding North and South Waziristan By Rahimullah Yusufzai 38 Who Tried to Kill Benazir Bhutto? By Hassan Abbas 45 Pakistan's Taliban Negotiating Peace, Preparing for War By Rahimullah Yusufzai 48 Pakistan's Taliban Battle Military for Frontier Arms Bazaar and Strategie Tunnel BylmtiazAli 52 digitalisiert durch: Pakistan's troubled frontier IDS Luzern 2009 Baitullah Mehsud-The Taliban's New Leader in Pakistan By Imtiaz Ali 55 Pakistan Holds Secret Talks with Local Taliban By Sohail Abdul Nasir 58 Afghanistan and Pakistan Face Threat of Talibanization By Tarique Niazi 60 Questions Remain after Attack Wipes out Tehrik Leadership in Pakistan By Chris Zambelis 66 South Waziristan's Maulvi Nazir: The New Face of the Taliban By Hassan Abbas 70 PART III: NATO NATO's Khyber Lifeline By Imtiaz Ali 76 Taliban Target Karachi and Peshawar Links in NATO's Afghanistan By Andrew McGregor 81 Targeting the Khyber Pass: The Taliban's Spring Offensive By Andrew McGregor 84 NATO Strikes Taliban Militants in Pakistani Territory By Hassan Abbas 90 PART IV: Tribal Agencies A Profile of Militant Groups in Bajaur Tribal Agency By Mukhtar A. Khan 94 Sectarianism in Pakistan's Kurram Tribal Agency By Mariam Abou Zahab 99 Profiles of Pakistan's Seven Tribal Agencies By Hassan Abbas 105 Khyber Tribal Agency: A New Hub of Islamist Militancy in Pakistan By Imtiaz Ali 114 South Waziri Tribesmen Organize Counterinsurgency Lashkar By Andrew McGregor 120 Shiite-Sunni Strife Paralyzes Life in Pakistan's Kurram Tribal Agency By Imtiaz Ali 125 The Emerging Militancy in Pakistan's Mohmand Agency By Imtiaz Ali 128 Troop Defections Threaten Pakistan's Operations in Tribal Regions By Tarique Niazi 134 Increasing Talibanization in Pakistan's Seven Tribal Agencies By Hassan Abbas 137 PART V: Pakistan's Frontier Corps The Pakistan Frontier Corps in the War on Terrorism - Part One By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf 148 Pakistan's Frontier Corps and the War against Terrorism - Part Two By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf 156 Pakistan's Frontier Corps Struggles to Hold Forts against Taliban Attacks By Rahimullah Yusufzai 163 Transforming Pakistan's Frontier Corps By Hassan Abbas 166 PART VI: Security Forces The Role of Tribal Lashkars in Winning Pakistan's War on Terror By Mukhtar A. Khan 174 Pakistan's Army and the War on Terrorism in the Post-Musharraf Era By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf 178 Empowering 'Soft' Taliban Over 'Hard' Taliban: Pakistan's Counter- Terrorism Strategy By Sadia Sulaiman 186 Musharraf and Pakistan's Military Try to Restore Security Amidst Rising Anti-US Sentiment By Michael Scheuer 191 PART VII: Insurgency in SWAT From Militant to Peace Broker: A Profile of Maulana Sufi Mohammad By Imtiaz Ali 198 The Return of Shari'a Law to Pakistan's SWAT Region By Mukhtar Khan 203 Pakistan's New Government Launches Peace Initiative with Islamist Militants in Swat By Rahimullah Yusufzai 209 Pakistan's Military Offensive in Swat may be Start of Long Campaign By Imtiaz Ali 213 Revolt in Pakistan's NWFP: A Profile of Maulana Fazlullah of Swat ByAfzalKhan 216 Pakistan Loses Swat to Local Taliban By Christine Fair 219 TNSM Uses Earthquake to Advance Islamist Agenda in the NWFP BySohail Abdul Nasir 223 The Black-Turbaned Brigade: The Rise of TNSM in Pakistan By Hassan Abbas 227 PART VIII: SECURITYISSUES IN THE NWFP Military Operations in FATA: Eliminating Terrorism or Preventing the Balkanization of Pakistan? By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf. 234 Is the NWFP Slipping out of Pakistan's Control? By Hassan Abbas 242 Pakistan's Chitral District: A Refuge for al-Qaeda's Top Leadership? By Hassan Abbas 250 Asfandyar Wali: Profile of Pakistan's Progressive Pashtun Politician By Hassan Abbas 254 The Pakistan Connection to the United Kingdom's Jihad Network By James Brandon 261 Inside Pakistan's Madrasas ByFarhanaAli 268 Author Biographies 271 About the Editor 276 Index 277 .
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