The Faltering State: Pakistan’s Internal Security Landscape

Description

This book reviews the recent internal security challenges facing Pakistan. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on the subject of governance and the rule of law. It is based upon the author’s approximately four decades (1973–2011) of creditable public service and provides special insights into how Pakistan, as a state, has been mismanaged at all levels. Bringing a practitioner’s expertise, it will no doubt serve to inform the interested readership and stimulate debate on an issue that is of central importance to the survival of Pakistan as an effective state.

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction: What I Live For
3. Part 1: Internal Security Challenges
   1. Starting Second Innings
   2. Sindh Steps Back into the Nineteenth Century
   3. Balochistan Blindly Follows Sindh
   4. Balochistan on the Edge of a Precipice
   5. Memogate
   6. The NRO Saga
   7. Blueprint for Balochistan
   8. Threat at our Doorstep
   9. The Sectarian Menace
   10. Internal Security Challenges
   11. Counterterrorism Strategy
   12. Ballot or the Bullet
   13. The Monster Unleashed
4. Part 2: Caught in the Muddle
   1. Mandate for Governance
   2. Dialogue with the Taliban
   3. The Deep State
   4. Investing in Justice
   5. Reforming the Police
   6. The Drug Menace Continues
   7. Who will Police the Police?
   8. Double Impact
   9. Caught in the Muddle
   10. A Lethal Nexus
   11. Stronger Response Needed
   12. Crucial to Justice
   13. The Need to Rethink Policing
   14. Broken Paths
   15. Elusive Prison Reforms
   16. Counterterrorism Confusion
5. Part 3: All is Not Well
   1. Death of a Fighter
   2. The Faltering State
   3. All About Our Future
   4. Roadmap to Internal Security
   5. Policing Urban Violence
   6. Instant ‘Justice’
   7. All is Not Well
   8. Not the Whole Truth
   9. Model Town Fiasco
   10. Follies of a Desperate Lot
   11. Police Restructuring
   12. Caught in the Crossfire
   13. Waging War
   14. Civil-Military Imbalance
   15. Dangerous Truths
   16. The General’s Pledge
6. Part 4: Grapes of Wrath
   1. Counterterrorism National Action Plan
   2. Terrorism in 2014
   3. Destroying the Snake Pit
   4. The Oil Imbroglio
   5. Grapes of Wrath
   6. The Courage to Say ‘No’
   7. Good Morning’
   8. Solving Murder Mysteries
   9. National Inaction Plan
   10. Not a Perfect World
   11. Benazir Murder Mystery
   12. Mumbai Attacks Trial
   13. Policing: Challenges and Lessons
   14. The Golden Rule
   15. Police Reforms Agenda
   16. The Miasma of Hate
   17. The Balochistan Saga
   18. Shame Indeed
   19. Power of the Establishment
   20. Power without Principles
   21. Violent Extremism in Society
   22. Cancer of Corruption
   23. Sleeping on the Job
   24. The Power of the State
   25. Between the Devil and the Deep State
7. Epilogue: Wake up Pakistan
8. Acknowledgements
9. Appendices
10. Index

Author Biography

Tariq Khosa graduated from the National Defence University, Islamabad. He completed his Master’s in Defence and Strategic Studies in 2005 and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow under the Fulbright Exchange Program at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle in 1987–88.

The author began his career in public service in 1973 and has since remained involved in law enforcement. He had the distinction of serving as the Police Chief of Balochistan in 2007 and brought the entire province under police jurisdiction. His assignment as Federal Secretary of Narcotics Control Division (2010–11) placed him at the pinnacle of government service in Pakistan. Moreover, he was co-chair of the Governance Committee of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Country Programme (2010–14). He also served as Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 2009. As head of the federal police, he supervised the Mumbai terror attacks investigations (November 2008) and initiated the criminal investigation of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto (December 2007). He was also head of the National Central Bureau, Interpol, and was elected as the Delegate for Asia in the Executive Committee from 2009–12.

After his retirement in 2011, Tariq Khosa served as Advisor to the UNODC and co-founded the Police Reforms Group in 2013. He also helped draft the National Action Plan launched by the Government of Pakistan in 2015 and serves as Member of the Committee of Experts for the National Counter Terrorism Authority. He is a Member of the Geneva-based Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.

Currently, the author lives in Lahore and writes on internal security, governance, and criminal justice issues.