Category: Terrorism

Terrorism in the twenty-first century is no longer a peripheral security concern — it is a systemic, evolving threat that operates across digital, physical, and psychological domains simultaneously. From complex coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure to lone-wolf radicalization compressed into a matter of weeks, the operational landscape facing governments, security services, and private sector organisations has fundamentally changed.

CommandEleven’s terrorism analysis is grounded in the same intelligence tradecraft that informs government and institutional decision-makers — human source networks, signals analysis, pattern recognition, and historical precedent. Our analysts track active threat actors, map organisational structures, identify radicalization pipelines, and produce threat assessments calibrated to specific geographies, target types, and attack methodologies.

This category aggregates CommandEleven’s terrorism intelligence across all vectors — domestic and foreign, state-sponsored and non-state, ideological and criminal. It covers al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and its affiliates, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Hezbollah, Hamas, and emerging threat actors that have yet to reach mainstream awareness. Readers include security professionals, government contractors, academic researchers, journalists, and informed citizens tracking threats to their communities and institutions.

Geopolitics
Syed Khalid Muhammad

Security Challenges for the New Government

Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, discussed in detail the security challenges that Pakistan’s new government faces in both Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from insurgency and terrorism from Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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Hybrid Warfare
Lt. General Tariq Khan (Retired)

Was This My War?

We, the State, had allowed the Uzbeks, the Tajiks, the Arabs, Africans, the Chechens and numerous other criminals from almost all over the world to come and settle down, here amongst the tribal belt and hijack the tribes. They decapitated the mushers, (leaders) usurped the tribal way of life, commandeered spaces, collected revenue by force and governed the area through coercion, force and terror, while the State was conspicuous in its absence.

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Sector: Government
Lt. General Tariq Khan (Retired)

To Talk or Not to Talk

‘Go and learn Islam from Bush’, were the taunts my men suffered as they patrolled the streets of Jandola. It was demoralizing to the rank and file and confused the issue of who was the enemy and who was friend. It was a difficult situation with Muslims facing Muslims in a war that few understood and even lesser wanted to fight.

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Sector: Government
Lt. General Tariq Khan (Retired)

Beyond Hubris

Indeed, the US is making much heavy weather of exiting Afghanistan, and of course it entered the Country in a fit of bullheadedness, Al-Qaeda having shown the red rag – and without much forethought. But that happens most of the time, and since even the best laid-out plans fly out of window after the initial salvos; it’s the afterthought that counts. And that’s where America went awfully awry.

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