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Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit is a research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, where he focuses on violent extremism, insurgencies and asymmetric conflicts in South Asia.

Latest from Abdul Basit

Women Suicide Bombers and the Changing Trajectories of Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency

Women Suicide Bombers and the Changing Trajectories of Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency

Two suicide bombings by educated, middle-class women have sent shockwaves across Pakistan, and mark an apparent shift in Baloch insurgents’ recruitment patterns and tactics.

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A Peshawar Bombing Reveals Pakistan’s Worsening Terrorism Predicament

A Peshawar Bombing Reveals Pakistan’s Worsening Terrorism Predicament

The recent suicide attack in Peshawar serves as a cruel reminder of terrorism’s resurgence and heralds a new phase of asymmetric conflict in Pakistan, placing its counterterrorism campaign at a crossroads.

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