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Conciliatory Karzai eases faction friction
United States policy and most outside assessments of Afghanistan focus primarily on the international effort to defeat an Islamist insurgency led by the Taliban movement...
24-Jul-2009
Forging Pakistan/Afghanistan links
A flurry of bilateral negotiations have taken place between Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States and the fall...
28-May-2009
Deobandi groups and Ahl-e Hadith
In Pakistan, both Ahl-e Hadith and Deobandi groups have acted as proxies of the Pakistani military, which used them to wage jihad in Kashmir and...
21-May-2009
Abu Sayyaf still holds Philippines to ransom
On 15 January 2009, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) seized three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers - an Italian, Swiss and a Filipina...
16-Apr-2009
Ethnic fault lines grow in Pakistan
The ethnic divide in Pakistan has reflected the economic fortunes of the country's four provinces, which are linguistically and ethnically different. Balochistan (Balochis), the North...
27-Feb-2009
*Is Pakistan failing the FATA?
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has in recent years seen some fundamental changes in its administrative framework, but not the kind most reformists had...
18-Dec-2008
Shrine tensions deepen Kashmir divide
After four years of relative calm in Indian-administered Kashmir, the disputed state has once again been stirred into violence. In particular, communal tensions, rather than...
20-Oct-2008
Pakistan's pride and prejudice
September saw the first incursion into Pakistani soil by US troops based in neighbouring Afghanistan. In doing so, the United States not only crossed the...
10-Oct-2008
Minority report: discrimination in Myanmar
T he Rohingya community is largely confined to the swampy border areas between Myanmar and Bangladesh. As an unrecognised Muslim minority in Myanmar, speaking a...
11-Sep-2008
Divisions emerge in Afghan drug strategy
In February 2008, the annual UN study of Afghanistan's narcotics production found that the country had produced another record harvest of opium poppy. Although opium...
29-Aug-2008
Afghans to shoulder Kabul's security
According to the Afghan Ministry of Defence, the formal hand-over of Regional Command - Capital (RC-C) from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to the...
22-Aug-2008
Gas fires up Turkmen foreign policy
When Turkmenistan shut off the natural gas supply to Iran in December 2007 in an apparent effort to negotiate a higher price from its powerful...
18-Aug-2008
Pakistan's alienated Northern Areas
The Northern Areas, or to be more accurate, the Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA), is Pakistan's province that never was. It sits alongside North West...
18-Aug-2008
Islam v Islam: What is Uzbekistan's future?
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov is an authoritarian figure who has ruled his country since it became independent in 1991. One of the factors which make...
23-Jul-2008
Islam and ethnic politics in Malaysia
The poor electoral performance of Malaysia's ruling coalition in March 2008 can be attributed to a litany of grievances: a slowing economy, corruption and growing...
14-Jul-2008
*Nepal's small but assertive Muslim population
In late March, multiple bomb blasts at a mosque in Biratnagar, near the Nepal's border with India, left two people dead. According to local online...
29-May-2008
Pakistan's new counter-terrorism policy
The new Pakistani government's counter-terrorism strategy is still developing, forcing the United States to rethink its position regarding one of its main allies in the...
09-May-2008
Musharraf and the Pakistani opposition
Not long ago it seemed everyone in Pakistan was screaming for President Pervez Musharraf's head. A stream of disasters - the takeover by Islamist militants...
23-Apr-2008
Uzbekistan opens arms to US military
Uzbekistan's relations with the West have taken a sharp turn recently. Tashkent's willingness to re-engage now is clear but what prompted the sudden change is...
17-Apr-2008
Indian underground activists suffer setback
On 27 March, the special task force of Madhya Pradesh police arrested 13 suspected members of the banned militant group Students Islamic Movement of India ...
08-Apr-2008
US-Muslim Relations in Southeast Asia
It is difficult to assess United States-Muslim relations in Southeast Asia. The people in this region have diverse ethnic backgrounds and Islamic practices. The ...
07-Apr-2008
Malaysia's 2008 general elections: acts of faith
The 8 March Malaysian general elections undermined the country's ethnic-based power-sharing model based on the majority Malay community retaining political hegemony. The governing National Front...
26-Mar-2008
Indian Muslims' gradual alienation
India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an overwhelming victory in the December 2007 Gujarat elections, securing 117 seats in the 182-member state assembly. The...
11-Mar-2008
Musharraf's last stand
Many observers were not surprised with the results of the 18 February parliamentary election in Pakistan, which reflected the continuing political dominance of the country's...
28-Feb-2008
Simmering Balochistan
International attention may be focused towards events in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan, but tensions simmer in the country's largest and poorest...
15-Feb-2008
Fragile peace in southern Philippines
Prospects for peace in the southern Philippines have once again dimmed after the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government failed to finalise...
22-Jan-2008
Pakistan's MMA: the Janus Effect
Just as the 2002 general elections were the making of Pakistan's six-member Islamic party alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the 2008 polls also look set ...
18-Jan-2008
The Gulf states and disunity over Iran
On 3 December 2007 in Doha, the same day the administration in the United States released extracts of the US National Intelligence Estimate's (NIE) revised ...
07-Jan-2008
The emergence of the Pakistani Taliban
The ongoing insurgencies in Pakistan's North and South Waziristan and the consequential rising incidences of tribal militancy have led to the emergence of a local ...
11-Dec-2007
Thailand's counter-insurgency operations
Despite the Thai military’s recent actions aimed at significantly reducing the insurgency in the deep south, which have yielded some results, ongoing violence highlights the ...
16-Nov-2007
Winds of change in Saudi Arabia
Since ascending the throne in August 2005, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the sixth monarch of modern Saudi Arabia, has embraced a programme of gradualist...
26-Oct-2007
Afghan-Pakistan joint peace jirga
The Afghan-Pakistan Joint Peace Jirga in August was an unprecedented event that raised more questions than answers. Jane's assesses the effectiveness and impact of ...
22-Oct-2007
India's evolving Muslim community
India's Muslims have previously kept themselves away from global Islamist movements. However, this looks set to change as factors that could increase the possibility ...
12-Oct-2007
Hui accommodation to Chinese society
In early September, international press agencies cited a report from the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong Kong human rights group, that...
24-Sep-2007
Regional trade barriers in Central Asia
The prospects for Central Asian countries to realise economic, political, and security benefits from increased trade among themselves have significantly improved with the collapse of...
13-Aug-2007
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