ISI-Dawood: How a transnational ‘narco-jihad’ threatens regional security
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades a shadow economy of drugs, counterfeit currency and illicit cash flows has threaded its way across South Asia, North Africa and beyond. What makes this underground economy especially dangerous is not only its scale but the way statecraft, organized crime and violent Islamist militancy appear to intersect – creating a self-reinforcing funding loop for groups that seek to destabilize societies […]





