AKHTAR Shahzad <br/><br/>
Decline of insurgency in Pakistan's FATA :    a counterinsurgency perspectives/ 
Shahzad Ahthar 
 -  2019 
<br/><br/> This paper argues that Pakistan's counterinsurgency campaign after 2009 caused the decline of the Taliban insurgency by targeting the TTP through a true counterinsurgency operation.  Pakistani military elites had a clear understanding that the military forces lacked counterinsurgency skills which explained their poor and inefficient performance. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PAKISTAN -- COUNTERINSURGENCY