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War on Terrorism in Pakistan: Security Challenges and Safety Prioritization

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DOI: 10.18535/sshj.v8i04.981· Pages: 34765-34782· Vol. 8, No. 04, (2024)· Published: April 1, 2024
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Abstract

This paper highlights the dynamics of war on terror among the Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States of America. It provides the strategic importance such as political, economic and militarily interests in the region. This study also shows the policies and strategies adopted by the US and Pakistan to save their interests in the American led war on terror. War against terror or war on terror, is an internationally military campaign that was launched by the Bush administration. The fatalistic incident known as 9/11 happened in 2001 in which approximately 2700 people were killed and numberless of injured fettered the wall of international politics. After this incident the government of America and world community were very much aggressive to take revenge from Al-Qaida network based in the Afghanistan.  This research tries to find out the answer of the research questions such as to analyze the Pak US relations since inception. American foreign policies towards Pakistan after 9/11. To analyze the policies made by Pakistan to combat terrorism domestically and strengthen political as well as military institutions.  Furthermore to analyze the policies of neighboring states such as India and Afghanistan towards the Pakistan.  To find out the answers of these research questions research has employed qualitative research methodology with interpretative approach with securitization theory. For data analysis descriptive and exploratory approaches has been used in this research. The core findings of the research that war on terror was combination of Mush and Bush to secure their interests in the region. Bush ruined the Al-Qaida network and Mush got an economic assistance.  US showed the supremacy to the world by led a war on terror. Pak US relations make its flow towards an alliance against terrorist’s network in Afghanistan. War on Terror was a complex war and essence a question of territorial sovereignty. This war on terror put the whole region at risk.

Keywords

War on TerrorPakistanUnited StatesSecurity ImplicationsSafety PrioritiesSecuritization TheoryNuclearization

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Nabel Akram
PhD Scholar in Political Communication in China and Former Research Assistant at University of Management and Technology Lahore. Komal Tariq is a senior Social Study teacher at Educators.
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