Islamist networks : the Afghan-Pakistan connection / by Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy ; translated from the French by John King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ex-Soviet Central Asia: -- The Tajik party of the Islamic Renaissance (PIR) -- The Islamic movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) -- Hizb ul-Tahrir (Party of liberation) -- -- Afghanistan : from the Islamists to the Taliban and Al-Qaida -- -- Pakistan : from religious conservatism to political radicalism: -- Deobandi movements and violent action -- The active jihadist tendency in Kashmir and Afghanistan from the Harakat ul-Ansar to the Jaish-i-Muhammad -- Salafism and jihadism -- -- Connections and dynamics: -- The al-Qaida movement and the Afghans : the fusion between the Taliban and al-Qaida, the role of Pakistan, the Pakistani military intelligence services and the radical tendency -- Pakistani Islamists at the heart of transnational links -- The Pakistanisation of Al-Qaida -- The blurring of strategic and ideological alignments.