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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
What’s in a Name?
Overview of Pakistan’s Contemporary Militant Landscape
Data and Methods
Plan of the Book
2. The Genesis of the Indo-Pakistan Security Competition
Summoning A Muslim Zion in South Asia
The Origins of Pakistan’s Kashmir Obsession
Three Obdurate Princes
Rending the Punjab
Military, Mullah, Militant Nexus: The Army and the Ideology of Pakistan
Pakistan Repeatedly Tries to Change Maps through War
Implications of this History
3. Pakistan’s Creeping Jihad and Expanding Nuclear Umbrella
Twinned Histories of Proxy Warfare and Nuclear Coercion
Jihad in Afghanistan and India Under Expanding Nuclear Umbrella
Pakistan’s Jihad in Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Jihad in India
Conclusions and Implications
4. What is the LeT? A Critical Examination
Situating LeT within South Asia’s Salafis
Early History of MDI, JuD and LeT
Organizational Structure
Key Leadership
Financing the Army of the Pure
Training Soldiers in the Army of the Pure
The Nascence of the Milli Muslim League
Conclusions and Implications
5. Who Are the Soldiers in the Army of the Pure?
Introduction to the Dataset on Slain LeT Activists
Characteristics of the Soldiers in the Army of the Pure
Why They Fight: Motivating the Fighters in the Army of the Pure
Recruiting the Families of the Fighters: Mothers May Matter Most
Conclusions and Implications
6. The Domestic Politics of LeT
Key Sources for this Chapter
Why Wage Jihad and Under What Circumstances?
Defending Jihad against the Myriad Excuses against Jihad
Muslims among Non-Muslims in Pakistan
Christians Among Muslims
Friends with Benefits: Symbiosis with the Deep State
Conclusions and Implications
7. Dealing with LeT and Escaping Pakistan’s Nuclear Coercion
Option 1. Maintain the Status Quo: American Cupidity and Indian “Strategic Restraint”
Option 2. Leadership Decapitation: What Happens if LeT Heads Roll?
Option 3. Escaping Pakistan’s Coercion Strategy
There Are No Good Options. Just “Less Bad” Options
Appendix 1. Notes on Transliteration and Translation
Appendix 2. List of Acronyms
Appendix 3. Glossary of Non-English Words
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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