[Reader-list] "Shadow War: the Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir" by Arif Jamal

[Kshmendra Kaul]

""""" In his book, Jamal claims that the Pakistani military has trained nearly half a million insurgents and, as a matter of defense policy, continued the conflict at great human cost. He discusses how CIA money destined for the Afghan mujahideen was funneled to Kashmiri jihadis, fueling to a twenty-year insurgency rarely discussed in Western media. """"""
 
ABOUT THE BOOK & the AUTHOR
 
For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir, and have fought three wars. Jamal's book documents another war that has been fought in the shadows. Having interviewed nearly a thousand militants in Kashmir, Arif Jamal presents an account of Pakistan's secret battles with India from the early 1980s, when the Kashmiri conflict lurked in the background of the CIA's proxy war in Afghanistan, to the eruption of insurgent violence in 1988, to recent Kashmiri connections to terrorist financing and training. In his book, Jamal claims that the Pakistani military has trained nearly half a million insurgents and, as a matter of defense policy, continued the conflict at great human cost. He discusses how CIA money destined for the Afghan mujahideen was funneled to Kashmiri jihadis, fueling to a twenty-year insurgency rarely discussed in Western media. 

Arif Jamal is a Visiting Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of the New York University. Jamal has written more than 200 investigative and interpretive articles in English, focusing on such subjects as Islamist politics in Pakistan, jihad in Kashmir, and the Pakistan Army. Arif Jamal began his professional career in Pakistan in 1986 as a journalist and has since worked with The Pakistan Times, The Muslim, The News, Newsline and Financial Post; and with various international media including The New York Times, Radio France International, and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He holds a Masters in International Relations and has been a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard and at the University of London, where he performed research activities on modern Salafism and Salafist jihad in South Asia and its links to Salafism in Saudi Arabia. 

http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/sai/