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Inside the Mind of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba

Mon. April 15th, 2019
Washington, DC

Online registration for this event is now closed. Onsite registration will be available. Watch the livestream is 10:30 AM. 

This past November marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Mumbai that killed more than 160 people, perpetrated by a Pakistan-based jihadist terrorist group called Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. Today the group still operates inside, and outside, of Pakistan’s borders despite mounting international pressure on Pakistan to disrupt its operations. As the group continues to attack India from bases in Pakistan, it further escalates tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries.

C. Christine Fair’s new book, In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, reveals little-known details of how this group functions by translating and commenting upon its sophisticated propagandist literature. The book examines how this canon of texts is the group’s most popular and potent weapon, in particular demonstrating how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba thinks about recruiting families rather than simply fighters. C. Christine Fair, Joshua T. White, and Polly Nayak will discuss the book’s findings and implications for the broader challenges around Pakistan’s nuclear coercion. Carnegie’s Ashley J. Tellis will moderate.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

The livestream for this event will be available on this page at 10:30 a.m. EST on Monday, April 15.

C. Christine Fair

C. Christine Fair is a Provost’s distinguished associate professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Polly Nayak

Polly Nayak is a distinguished fellow with the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center.

Joshua T. White

Joshua T. White is associate professor of the Practice of South Asia Studies and fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Ashley J. Tellis

Ashley J. Tellis holds the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Ashley J. Tellis

Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs

Ashley J. Tellis is the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in international security and U.S. foreign and defense policy with a special focus on Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

C. Christine Fair

C. Christine Fair is a professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Polly Nayak

Polly Nayak is an independent consultant. She previously served as the intelligence community’s top expert on South Asia.

Joshua T. White

Joshua T. White is a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, and associate professor of the practice of South Asia studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington. His research focuses on political and security issues in the Indian subcontinent, and explores the growing ties between South and East Asia.