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Cryptocurrencies: A New Scourge of Terror Financing

...global counter-terrorism community has serious concerns over the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorist groups for terror financing … this essay examines some of the recent cases of the use of virtual currencies for terror financing, and the use o....

August 27, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Islamic State , Cryptocurrencies , Terror Financing
Terror Financing: Battle beyond the Banks

… FATF pronouncements are sensitive to the requirements of better information sharing between the law enforcement agencies, banking sector, governments, and the private sector … it is also engaging police officers, judges and prosecutors to impro....

May 01, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , FATF , Terror Financing
Commentary: Implications of Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey List
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Commentary

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) The ‘Group of Seven’ countries, commonly referred as G-7, was conceptualised prior to the 1973 oil crisis. It started with an informal meeting between the US Secretary of the Treasury and....

April 23, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , FATF Grey List , Pakistan’s terror-finance , FATF
Rise of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Kashmir Valley - an Internal Security Perspective

Introduction On January 2, 2016, a group of four to six well trained Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists launched an audacious attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab. In an operation that continued over the next four days, all t....

January 25, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Kashmir Valley , Pathankot Attack , United Jihad Council , Jaish-e-Mohammed
Is India Likely to be the Next Major Target of ISIS? - An Analysis of Post-Manhattan Terror Attack

From the reports of the intelligence and security establishment, it is clear that activities of IS sympathisers in India are under control. Indeed, there have been no recent reports of radicalised youth trying to migrate to centers of IS activiti....

December 12, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Jammu & Kashmir , Islamic State , ISIS , Post-Manhattan Terror Attack
Post-ISIS: Future of Global Jihad
Abhinav Pandya

Post-Islamic State Jihad-Terror As Islamic State (IS), or ISIS (Daesh) is continuously losing territories in Iraq and Syria and with the imminent likelihood of it’s fading into oblivion, sooner than later, the questions that hau....

November 28, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , Islamic State , Radicalisation
Uzbek President’s Roadmap to Check Radicalization
Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal

Since attaining independence in 1991, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian Republics have been struggling to prevent the radicalization of their overwhelmingly Muslim populations. Uzbekistan quickly realized the danger of unregulated religious preachi....

August 17, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Uzbekistan , radicalization , religious preaching
Mosul Recaptured: Is This the End of Daesh?
Dr Ramanand Garge

Iraqi Prime Minister Announces the Fall of Mosul July 10, 2017 is rightly being acknowledged as a historic day in the fight against dreaded phenomenon of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) brand of terrorism. The Iraqi Pri....

August 09, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS
दक्षिण फिलीपींस में दाएश के खिलाफ संयुक्त सैन्य अभियान
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

प्रासंगिक मुद्दे राजनीतिक और सैन्य मकसद पूरे करने के लिए आतंकवाद को युगों से हथियार बन�....

July 27, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , आतंकवाद , ISIS , फिलीपींस , दाएश , Joint Military Operations , Daesh in Southern Philippines , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Joint Military Operations against Daesh in Southern Philippines
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Pertinent Issues Terror as a tool has been used through the ages to achieve political and military objectives. Currently it is often described as Fourth Generation Warfare. Broadly it is an asymmetric tool that is normally used....

July 10, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , Daesh , Philippines , Marawi
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