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Synopsis After the 11 September 2001 attacks by the Pakistan-Afghanistan trained terrorists on the WorldTrade Centre and the Pentagon, Pakistan polity is undergoing a series of convulsions. Immediately, the official honeymooning with the Taliban and al-Quaida was given up and the US was invited, willy-nilly, to fight terrorism from Pakistani soil. The ISI was overhauled and abruptly its charter on Afghanistan was officially revised. Similarly, the state was forced to act against the Jihadi organizations whom it had nurtured for more than two decades. Even on the Kashmir issue, officially Pakistan was forced to tone down its stand by the international community. In the backdrop of these developments, an independent assessment of the state of Pakistan is useful. The proposed volume presents how observers in New Delhi view these developments. Some of the questions the volume addresses include: how for those policy changes altered the ground situation or have they remained just cosmetic changes; the role of the now famous ISI, the future of Jihadi organizations, and Indo-Pak relations; and the future of Pakistan as a viable nation state. The book is a multi-disciplinary study with contribution by some of the leading strategic analysis in India.