Pakistan's Counterterrorism Strategy: Separating Friends from Enemies

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Correspondent for the British daily The Independent, discussion with author, Islamabad, August 2, 2010. 2. Kamran Yousaf, “Pakistan, U.S. at odds over definition,” The Express Tribune, October 30, 2010, http://tribune.com.pk/story/69816/pakistan-us-at-odds-over-definition/. 3. Mohammad Aamir Rana, discussion with author, Islamabad, July 30, 2010. 4. Yahya Mujahid and Syed Saleem Shehzad, discussion with author, Islamabad, October 10, 2010. 5. “India Supporting Militancy in Balochistan: Musharraf,” The Express Tribune, October 10, 2010, http://tribune.com.pk/story/60862/india-supporting-militancy-in-balochistan-musharraf/. 6. Yahya Mujahid, interview with author, Islamabad, October 10, 2010. 7. Karachi-based journalist, confidential discussion with author, October 7, 2010. 8. Bob Woodword, Obama's Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), p. 116. 9. Major General Athar Abbas, discussion with author, Rawalpindi, November 2009. 10. This was part of Pasha's statement to a select group of media soon after the Mumbai attacks. 11. Susanne Koelbl, “Pakistan's New Intelligence Chief: ‘Terror Is Our Enemy, Not India’,” Der Spiegel, January 6, 2009, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,599724,00.html. 12. Dexter Filkins, “Pakistanis Tell of Motive in Taliban Leader's Arrest,” The New York Times, August 22, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/asia/23taliban.html. 13. U.S. diplomats from the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, discussions with author, October 12, 2010. 14. Safiya Aftab, “Poverty and Underdevelopment,” The Friday Times, April 9, 2010, http://waseb.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/poverty-and-underdevelopment-by-safiya-aftab/. 15. Ayesha Siddiqa, “Terror's Training Ground,” Newsline, September 9, 2009, http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/09/terror's-training-ground/. 16. Vali Nasr, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World (Free Press, 2009). 17. See Ayesha Siddiqa, “The Conservatively Hip,” Newsline, August 31, 2010, http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/08/the-conservatively-hip/. 18. Shahzada Irfan Ahmed and Ayesha Siddiqa, “Religious Mission or Political Ambition?,” Newsline, September 30, 2010, http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/09/religious-mission-or-political-ambition/. 19. Javed Ahmed Ghamdi, discussion with author, Islamabad, October 8, 2010. 20. Jamal Hoti, “Moderate scholar Dr. Farooq killed in Mardan,” Dawn, October 3, 2010, http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/44-swat-universitys-vice-chancellor-dr-farooq-assasinated-fa-03. 21. Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz, and Peter Sickle, “Building Moderate Muslim Networks,” RAND Corporation Monograph Series (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007), pp. 102-103, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG574.pdf. 22. Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, “The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Islamist Militancy in South Asia,” The Washington Quarterly 33, no. 1 (January 2010), pp. 47-59, http://www.twq.com/10january/docs/10jan_GangulyKapur.pdf. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAyesha SiddiqaAyesha Siddiqa is the first Pakistan scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (Pluto Press, 2007)