Pakistan's quagmire : security, strategy, and the future of the Islamic-nuclear nation / edited by Usama Butt and by N. Elahi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter One. Pakistan's Salvation: Islam or Western Inspired Secular-liberal Democracy? / Usama Butt -- Chapter Two. Promising Partnership? American Af-Pak Strategy and Pakistan's Counter-terrorism Response / Ishtiaq Ahmad -- Chapter Three. The Economic Cost of Extremism / Sartaj Aziz -- Chapter Four. Insurrection, Terrorism and the Pakistan Army / Brian Cloughley -- Chapter Five. The Existential Threat: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaeda in Pakistan? / N. Ilahi -- Chapter Six. Al-Qaeda The Threat from Tribal Pakistan / Rohan Gunaratna -- Chapter Seven. Safety and Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Assets / Rabia Akhtar and Nazir Hussain -- Chapter Eight. The Politics of IDPs: A Fallout of Politics of Domestic and Foreign Actors / Sajjad Naseer -- Chapter Nine. The Prospect of a Populist Islamist Takeover of Pakistan / Jullian Schofield -- Chapter Ten. "We are the soldiers of Islam": Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Ideology of Terror / Simon R. Valentine -- Chapter Eleven. Women in Jihad: Emerging Discourses in Pakistan / Samina Yasmeen.