Farhana Ali is a scholar and author of several internationally published research papers. Her writings for Criterion Quarterly are: Pakistan: On or Off? Examining the Future of U.S.- Pakistan Relations In the War on Terror and Beyond The Bomber Under the Burqa
By Farhana Ali[*] Abstract (Since March 2003, when the war in Iraq began, the participation of women in that country in suicide terrorism has increased by nearly 30 percent. This year alone there have been eight attacks committed by women compared to six in 2007. The exponential increase in female suicide bombings suggests the trend
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By Farhana Ali[1] Abstract Pakistan’s alliance with the United States was cemented six years ago to fight the global war on terrorism. The fatal attacks in Washington in September 2001 forced Islamabad to yield to U.S. demands to sever its historic ties with the Taliban, root out indigenous religious extremists, and choke al-Qaeda’s lifeline in
