The writer is a former Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police. She has studied at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and is currently a research scholar on South Asia.

Blog Entries by Marie-Lou Fernandes

Pakistan: Terrorists Come Home to Roost

2 Comments | Posted March 12, 2009 | 07:50 AM (EST)


Last week in a daring move calculated to capture the world's attention, terrorists targeted a Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Eight Pakistanis died while six Sri Lankans and one British national were injured. A few months ago, in another horrific move also designed for...

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A Lashkar e Toiba By Any Other Name....

Posted December 6, 2008 | 08:08 PM (EST)


Even as the terror strikes were occurring in Mumbai last week, a tragedy that was to leave nearly two hundred persons dead, an unknown entity called the Deccan Mujahideen had immediately claimed responsibility. Earlier that year India was witness to several other terror strikes in the provinces of Uttar Pradesh,...

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The Lone Man at the Center

Posted December 5, 2008 | 10:59 AM (EST)


The lone captured terrorist involved in the Mumbai terror strike last week has begun singing, his police custody a matter of outstanding bad luck for the terror masterminds. Kasab was never meant to be captured alive. His custody is the ironic outcome of a single police officer trading his life...

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