Faisal Raja

The death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the former supreme leader of Taliban, has changed the dynamics of insurgency in Afghanistan. Before his death, the Taliban had entrenched their positions in eastern and southern provinces like Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Ghazni, Paktika, Kunar and Farah. Moreover, they had also built support over social grievances; learnt to […]

Moharram is one of the main religious months in Pakistan. Every year, a handsome amount is spent for security of different events during Moharram and maintaining law and order in different districts of the country. In Punjab, managing Moharram is one of the biggest challenges for police commanders and district administration. The month pivots around […]

The encounter was clean and swift. Malik Muhammad Ishaq, once a fearsome leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), finally met the fate of a lowly dacoit. The 28-year career of the LeJ chief abruptly ended in the dead of the night at Shahwala, a peripheral location in district Muzaffargarh, along with 13 other affiliates of the […]

On April 18, 2015, while General Sher Mohammad Karimi, Afghan Chief of General Staff, was presiding over the 132nd passing-out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, the Islamic State (IS) field operators were carrying out its first deadly attack on Afghan soil in Jalalabad. The suicide attack at a bank was so powerful that […]

Over the years, Punjab has been considered as hotbed of extremism, especially its southern region where huge landholdings are coupled with high unemployment and low literacy rates. The districts in the region have witnessed mushroom growth of madaras (religious seminaries), along with hefty foreign financial aid for establishing large infrastructures for medical, housing and educational […]

The recent incidents of terrorism have highlighted the importance of preemptive target detection to curb terrorism and reduce level of fatalities in such occurrences. The security forces and local administration have always been caught unawares whenever terror operators target a particular location. Through a predictive analytical approach one can look into the mind of a […]

In the last five years, 2011-2016, the number of victims of terrorism is reported to be 804 in Punjab. These fatalities include civilians (530), security forces personnel (89), militants (62) and terrorists (123) respectively. The overall terror related civilian death toll in Pakistan during the period remained at 11,684 whereas 3,133 security personnel lost their […]

The religious parties have observed chehlum of Mumtaz Qadri on March 27, 2016 at Liaqat Bagh Rawalpindi. The announcement was made from the platform of Tehreek Sirat-e-Mustaqeem (Movement for the Right Path) at the time of the burial of Qadri at Bara Kahu, Islamabad, on March 1, 2016. A sit-in has been continuing at the […]