Anatomy of a terrorist organisation

What motivates Lashkar-e-Tayyaba's three-decades-long history of cross-border assaults? A book on the literature of the outfit attempts to provide some insights into this pressing question

The Literature of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba: Deadly Lines of Control

Authors: C Christine Fair & Safina Ustaad 

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pages: 658

Price: Rs 1,495

For nearly 35 years, India has experienced murderous assaults from extremist organisations nurtured, armed and trained by Pakistani state organisations. All of them carry names such as Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed, or Harakat -ul-Ansar, attesting to their drawing their doctrinal bases from Islam while wreaking havoc in different parts of India and Afghanistan and even within Pakistan itself. But the most lethal among them has been Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT, “The Army of the Pure”), which has been responsible for numerous attacks in