Prem Mahadevan
Prem Mahadevan is a senior fellow with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Previously, he was a senior researcher with the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he was responsible for tracking jihadist terrorism. He has written three books: The Politics of Counterterrorism in India (London: IB Tauris, 2012), An Eye for An Eye: Decoding Global Special Operations and Irregular Warfare (New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2014) and Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia (London: IB Tauris, 2018). He has been consulted by the Indian National Security Guards and National Police Academy on emerging terrorist threats, as well as delivered briefings to the Swiss Foreign and Defence Ministries, Federal Intelligence Service, NATO Headquarters and the Global Counterterrorism Forum, where he has spoken about Pakistani state sponsorship of terrorism in the context of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack.
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https://paulocasaca.substack.com/p/persecution-of-ahmadiyya-muslims?r=1ld3q1
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