Pakistan and its affinity for the Hamas – C259
It is widely known that state-sponsorship of terrorism is an essential tool in Pakistan’s foreign and domestic policies. The involvement of Islamabad’s security sector agents in terrorist attacks on both Indian and Afghan soils are documented. Considering that the country is the base for numerous regional and global Jihadist...
SADF Research Report- Persecution against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan: A multi-dimensional perspective
Abstract
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) has always considered itself as part of the Muslim ummah, the larger community of Muslim believers (Khan, 2003, p. 218). However, several conservative fundamentalist groups within the Sunni Muslim community deemed the AMC as heretical and acted to ostracise its members from said ummah...
POLICY BRIEF 9 – EU-South Asia trade perspectives: State of play
SADF Policy Brief 9 - EU-South Asia trade perspectives: State of play
Abstract
The European Union is South Asia’s number one trading partner and has thus far engaged with the region mainly on commercial grounds. This paper provides a thorough analysis of the trade relations between the two blocs, devoting...
Research Report 8 – The Hefazat-e-Islam and the Islamist challenge in Bangladesh
Abstract
In recent years, the number of terrorist incidents and related casualties have steadily declined in Bangladesh. Yet the problem of Islamist extremism remains, as can be witnessed in the frequent outbursts of massive political violence, increase in religiously motivated illiberalism, and a general shrinking of free, liberal, and secular...
European and Indian perspectives on the nuclear threat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSHyWamelX8
On November the 20th at 18H. (CET) SADF promoted a conversation in the web platform StreamYard titled ‘European and Indian perspectives on the nuclear threat’.
SADF Director moderated the conversation that included two guest speakers, Dr Tereza Novotná, and Sanjana Gogna. Tereza Novotná is a Fellow of the Korea-Europe Center...
COMMENT 218 – From Taliban 2.0 to EU DisInfolab – The outreach of Global...
here are no moderate Taliban – Dr Massouda Jalal so entitled her anticipatory 2011 Wall Street Journal article. Jalal, the first woman running for the Office of President, who also served as a minister for woman affairs in Afghanistan, highlighted that ‘eeking to negotiate with an implacable enemy could...
Prospects for NATO-Japan relations -C258
NATO’s summit in Madrid in June 2022 determined a historical landmark regarding NATO’s relations with Asia for several reasons. For the first time, leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand (the Indo-Pacific Four or IP4) attended a NATO Summit. Additionally, ‘NATO included China in its Strategic Concept’....
SADF NEWSLETTER: SADF WEEKLY | Pakistan’s Three War Fronts
Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul at the hands of the Taliban was euphorically celebrated by Pakistan. The Prime Minister of the time announced stridently that Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery,” while the normally circumspect chief of the Pakistani military secret services went public in Kabul celebrating...
COMMENT 137- Illegal and Ecologically hostile fishing in Goa’s Zuari River
Introduction
The issue of overfishing affects not only artisanal fishers but also marine ecology in general. Ecologically hostile fishing gears such as trawl nets and purse-seine nets are deployed in the Zuari River even though their use is banned by the Goa Fisheries Department within a radius of five kilometres...
Comment 256 Pakistani elections – timely, perhaps; free and fair is another matter.
During the last months, Pakistan experienced one of its most severe crises – which was accompanied by violent events against the military itself, thus questioning the current establishment in the South Asian state. As outlined in my last SADF Research Report, both the army and the civilian administration worked...