THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION JANUARY 14 2022

These (proselytization) and he discussed the “military-backed monks,” however, are not history of Islam, challenged the theories of necessarily local to the villages where they atheism, communism and capitalism, are placed, but brought to different areas promoted the righteousness of Islam, and of the country by the military (rfa.org, mentioned thinkers ranging from Malcolm March 14). [...] As opposed scale assassinations and IED attacks, the to carrying out violence locally like group still has the propensity to carry out militants in Jammu and Kashmir owing to high-profile suicide bombings as evidenced the indigenous nature of their conflict, by the 2021 Kabul bombings and the March South Indian IS operatives have been 2022 attack on a Shiite mosque in attracted to the utopian idea. [...] However, the types of weapons and growing interest in the Horn may lead to the provision of armed UAV’s by regional greater development in the region, the powers like the UAE and Turkey to Ethiopia battle between rival states also threatens is something of a departure from previous to further destabilize the region. [...] Given the ethnic Pashtun solidarity Pakistan’s 25 year-long support of the between the Taliban and the TTP, their long Taliban was expected to pay off once the history of co-operation, and the fact that insurgent group came to power. [...] It was the TTP provides the Taliban with strategic expected that the Taliban, in the context of leverage over Pakistan, the Taliban is its continued dependence on Pakistan due unlikely to snap ties with the TTP to global isolation, would avoid ruffling (Terrorism Monitor, February 8).