Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan: An emerging right-wing threat to Pakistan’s democracy

Issue Brief Apr 1, 2025

Rescuing Pakistan’s economy

By Aasim M. Husain

For decades, Pakistan has struggled with a declining standard of living, skyrocketing public debt, and economic policies that have failed to address the root causes of its stagnation.
Economy & Business Middle East
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan: An emerging right-wing threat to Pakistan’s democracy

New Atlanticist Mar 25, 2025

Starlink’s India launch is a crash course on New Delhi’s approach to tech sovereignty

By Trisha Ray

A recently announced partnership to deploy the Elon Musk-led company’s satellite internet in India offers a window into New Delhi’s “hybrid” approach.
Economy & Business India
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan: An emerging right-wing threat to Pakistan’s democracy

New Atlanticist Feb 19, 2025

Why India and Armenia are now taking their relationship to new heights

By Tatevik Khachatryan, Srujan Palkar

The growing military and diplomatic cooperation between New Delhi and Yerevan benefits both beyond immediate defense concerns.
Economy & Business India

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Jan 15, 2022

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan: An emerging right-wing threat to Pakistan’s democracy

By Roohan Ahmed

Videos circulating on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms showed a violent mob dragging a half-dead man on the streets of Sialkot, Pakistan on December 1, 2021. As the TLP’s influence grows and its ideology spreads, the de-radicalization of Pakistani society looks like an even more distant dream.

Extremism Pakistan

In the News

Jan 13, 2022

Safiya Ghori-Ahmad with BPIA and McLarty Associates for a conversation on digital money

By Atlantic Council

Digital Currencies Economy & Business

SouthAsiaSource

Jan 12, 2022

The Afghan Taliban aren’t likely to give up the TTP. Here’s why.

By Fahd Humayun

This week, a commander of the anti-Pakistan terrorist outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed by sniper fire in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, Afghanistan’s new ruling dispensation under the Afghan Taliban is unlikely to have had a hand in the hit, despite Islamabad’s insistence that the new regime take action against the outlawed terrorist group.

Afghanistan Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 11, 2022

Jamil in the International Journal of Nuclear Security: “Gift Baskets for South Asia: Nuclear Risk Reduction and Crisis Management”

By South Asia Center

Nuclear Deterrence Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2022

Here’s how to get US-India trade on the right track

By Mark Linscott

Both countries need to be vocal about their goals—but also realistic in their expectations.

India Macroeconomics

In the News

Jan 10, 2022

Akhtar reviews “Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance” by Hassan Abbas at Cambridge University Press

By South Asia Center

Nuclear Deterrence Pakistan

SouthAsiaSource

Jan 4, 2022

Experts react: India’s Personal Data Protection Bill tabled in Parliament

By Atlantic Council Experts

After two years wait and amid growing friction between the United States and India on thorny digital trade issues, India's Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Personal Data Protection Bill was tabled in Parliament on Thursday, December 16, 2021. South Asia Center experts react to the Bill.

Economy & Business India

In the News

Jan 3, 2022

Amb. Samad in Policy Magazine: Addressing Afghanistan’s Turmoil of Wicked Problems

By Atlantic Council

Indo-Pacific South Asia

In the News

Jan 3, 2022

Graham joined Al Jazeera Inside Story to discuss the implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

By Niels Graham

Watch the full panel here.

China East Asia

In the News

Jan 1, 2022

Riaz in BBC Bengali: জো বাইডেন: যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের মানুষের মধ্যে নতুন প্রেসিডেন্টের জনপ্রিয়তা এত দ্রুত কমছে কেন?

By South Asia Center

Bangladesh Politics & Diplomacy
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Alisha Chhangani

Assistant Director

GeoEconomics Center

Digital Currencies Digital Policy

Fellow

Julie Chon

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoEconomics Center

Americas China

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Richard Clarke

Distinguished Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Afghanistan Conflict

Fellow

Ariel Cohen

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Central Asia Politics & Diplomacy

Fellow

Justin M. Conelli

2022-23 Senior US Air Force Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Afghanistan National Security

Fellow

Scott Cooper

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Afghanistan Civil Society
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