Pakistan’s Secret War Machine

May 7, 2018 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Tags: PakistanAfghanistanTalibanWarIntelligence

Pakistan’s Secret War Machine

Pakistani intelligence has mainstreamed terrorism and political violence in the region.

Javid Ahmad, a nonresident fellow at West Point’s Modern War Institute, is a fellow at the Atlantic Council. The views expressed here are his own. You can follow him on Twitter at @ahmadjavid.

Image: Smoke rises from the site of a blast and gunfire between Taliban and Afghan forces in PD 6 as policemen keep watch in Kabul, Afghanistan March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani