WATANDOST: A Blog About Pakistan and its Neighborhood

Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University - August 2020In the fifth segment of NESA South Asia Interview Series, Professor Hassan Abbas interviews Professor Q...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-politics-of-countering-violent.html

Policing the Pandemic Worldwide: Best Practices for Law Enforcement Agencies Center for Global Policy, July 16, 2020 by Hassan AbbasThe unprecedented global challenge posed by the COVID-19 p...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-role-of-police-during-pandemic-and.html

Peace, Taliban and Cricket in Afghanistan: A Conversation with Afghan Leader and Diplomat Dr. Omar ZakhilwalNear East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, July 2020The third installment of th...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/have-taliban-changed-ideologically.html

Inside India Today: Politics, Security and the Rivalry with China – An Interview with Professor Christophe JaffrelotNESA South Asia Interview Series # 2 (June 27 2020)This is the second engagem...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/inside-india-today-politics-security.html

Afghanistan Between Negotiations: How the Doha Agreement Will Affect Intra-Afghan PeaceBy Andrew Quilty Sunday, July 5, 2020, LAWFARE BlogExcerptsTrump entered office promising to end the war in ...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-making-of-doha-deal-with-taliban.html

GOVERNANCE, COUNTER TERRORISM AND POLICING IN PAKISTAN – A CONVERSATION WITH AZHAR NADEEM, INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (RETIRED)Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defen...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/governance-counter-terrorism-and.html

Watandost in Urdu, Turkish and Farsi means "friend of the country". The blog contains news and views about Pakistan (and its neighbors) that are insightful but are often not part of the headlines. It also covers issues related to "Islam in the West" and the U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/roundtable-on-advocacy-for-police.html

Watandost in Urdu, Turkish and Farsi means "friend of the country". The blog contains news and views about Pakistan (and its neighbors) that are insightful but are often not part of the headlines. It also covers issues related to "Islam in the West" and the U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/07/need-for-global-police-reforms-agenda.html

When police officers are told they’re in a war, they act like itA CIA officer turned cop speaks out.By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Jun 2, 2020, Vox Patrick Skinner spent a decade running counterterror...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-to-reform-policing-in-america.html

Protests and Policing in America Today: Five Critical Lessons By Hassan Abbas Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University Washington DC June 5, 2020 The widespr...

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Afghan Taliban leader says committed to deal with the US In Eid message Haibatullah Akhunzada asks US 'not to waste' the opportunity offered by the deal to end 19-year-old war.May 20, 2020, Aljaz...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/05/updates-what-are-taliban-up-to.html

Politics and Security in Iraq Today May 18, 2020

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/05/politics-and-security-in-iraq-5.html

IRAQ’S NEW LEADERSHIP: HOPES AND EXPECTATIONSHassan Abbas,  Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies,  May 12, 2020 After a prolonged political deadlock, Iraq finally has a n...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/05/iraq-update-can-new-prime-minister.html

Modi’s Coronavirus TestThe Pandemic Offers a Struggling India the Chance to ResetBy Anubhav Gupta and Puneet TalwarForeign Affairs, May 04, 2020 The novel coronavirus is an enormous test for In...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/05/indias-tackling-of-pandemic-and.html

Afghanistan – Next Round Afghan Style Hamid Hussain, May 1, 2020 “However tall the mountain is, there is a road to the top of it”.   Afghan Proverb   United States and T...

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Pakistan and the Future of the Taliban: 10 Things to Consider  by  Hassan Abbas  March 30, 2020, Center for Global Policy, Washington DC.  Developing an intra-Afghan unde...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/05/pakistan-and-future-of-taliban.html

The Day After Al-Sistani Hassan Abbas,  Center for Global Policy, February 18, 2020 The world’s most prominent Shiite religious leader, Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, commands a ...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/04/iraqs-grand-ayatollah-sistani-is-he.html

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Hearing at the U.S. Congress on Protecting Houses of Worship and Holy Sites  October 23, 2019 - Testimony by Dr. Hassan Abbas Introduction:...

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Islam And Liberalism What are the progressive roots within Islam, and can they be strengthened? A roundtable discussion. BY HASSAN ABBAS KEITH ELLISON ASRA Q. NOMANI ANI ZONNEVELD Democracy - A J...

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  Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance Published by Hurst Publishers UK, Oxford University Press, USA and Penguin, India (2018) Book Launch at the National D...

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The Myth and Reality of Iraq’s al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces): A Way Forward By Hassan Abbas Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Amman Office September 2017 Amman, Jordan The contr...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-myth-and-reality-of-iraqs-al-hashd.html

Before the United States House of Representatives, March 22, 2016 Hearing: Women Fighting for Peace: Lessons for Today’s Conflicts Testimony by Hassan Abbas, Professor National Defense Universi...

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Report of the Task Force on the Future of Iraq: Achieving Long-Term Stability to Ensure the Defeat of ISIS May 31, 2017 Chair: Ambassador Ryan Crocker Executive Director: Dr. Nussaibah Younis Exc...

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Taliban Target: Scholars of Islam By MUJIB MASHAL and JAWAD SUKHANYAR New York Times, MAY 28, 2017 TOGH-BAIRDI, Afghanistan — A lone grave, its dirt mound shaded under the drooping branches of ...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2017/05/taliban-targeting-of-islamic-scholars.html

Who are the new jihadis? Biographies of ‘homegrown’ European terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violence by Olivier ...

https://watandost.blogspot.com/2017/05/who-are-new-jihadis-insightful-analysis.html