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The Making of Pakistani Human Bombs (Hardcover)
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The Making of Pakistani Human Bombs (Hardcover)
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A multi-level analysis of Pakistani human bombs reveals that
suicide terrorism is caused by multiple factors with perceived
effectiveness, vengeance, poverty, and religious fundamentalism
playing a varying role at the individual, organizational, and
environmental levels. Nationalism and resistance to foreign
occupation appear as the least relevant factors behind suicide
terrorism in Pakistan. The findings of this research are based on a
multi-level analysis of suicide bombings, incorporating both
primary and secondary data. In this study, the author also decodes
personal, demographic, economic and marital characteristics of
Pakistani human bombs. On average, Pakistani suicide bombers are
the youngest but the deadliest in the world, and more than 71
percent of their victims are civilians. Earlier concepts of a weak
link linking terrorism with poverty and illiteracy do not hold up
against the recent data gathered on the post-9/11 generation of
fighters in Pakistan (in suicidal and non-suicidal categories), as
the majority of fighters from a variety of terrorist organizations
are economically deprived and semi-literate. The majority of
Pakistani human bombs come from rural backgrounds, with very few
from major urban centres. Suicide bombings in Pakistan remain a
male-dominated phenomenon, with most bombers being single men.
Demographic profiling of Pakistani suicide bombers, based on a
random sample of 80 failed and successful attackers, dents the
notion that American drone strikes play a primary role in promoting
terrorism in all its manifestations. The study concludes that
previous scholarly attempts to explain suicide bombings are largely
based on Middle Eastern data, thus their application in the case of
Pakistan can be misleading. The Pakistani case study of suicide
terrorism demonstrates unique characteristics, hence it needs to be
understood and countered through a context-specific and multi-level
approach.
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