Consenting to a child's decision to join a Jihad: Insights from a survey of militant families in Pakistan

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 973-994

  Asal, Victor ^a   Fair, Christine C ^b   Shellman, Stephen ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 56149105855     PISSN: 1057610X     EISSN: 15210731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10576100802400201     Document Type: Article

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41. Although this data element was not reported in the public findings, information about this poll can be found in C. Christine Fair, Clay Ramsay, Steve Kull, Pakistani Public Opinion on Democracy, Islamist Militancy, and Relations with the U.S. (Washington, DC: USIP/PIPA, 7 January 2008).
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69. Ibid.
70. This means that the attainment rate, conditional upon being enrolled in school in the first place, is higher than the national average for all children. This is because the average includes children with no attainment. For more information about probabilities of school enrollment and retention rates see Yasayuki Sawada and Michael Lokshin, "Household Decisions in Rural Pakistan,2: World Bank Development Research Group, Poverty and Human Resources, Policy Research Working Paper 2541 (2001)
71. Their findings generally concurred with those of an earlier study by Jessica Holmes, Measuring the Determinants of School Completion in Pakistan: Analysis of Censoring and Selection Bias (Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1999).
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73. Life expectancy for males at birth in Pakistan is 62 years. Life expectancy is "the average number of years of life that a person can expect to live if they experience the current mortality rate of the population at each age." SeeWorld Health Organization background information on Pakistan, Pakistan. Cited 1 May 2007, available at http://www.who.int/countries/pak/en/
74. Evidence for these claims is substantial, notwithstanding Pakistan's increasingly untenable denials. See inter alia testimony of Director National Intelligence, John Negroponte, before a hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, "Current and Projected National Security Threats," 11 January 2007 (cited 1 May 2007, available at http://intelligence.senate.gov/ hearings.cfm?hearingId=2467)
75. Also see comments made byMaj. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, commander of Combined Joint Task Force 76, who said that "There's Taliban leaders in Pakistan ... We know that this group ... were from Jalaluddin Haqqani and we believe, though we don't know exactly where, that Jalaluddin Haqqani is operating from inside Pakistan and sending men to fight in Afghanistan ("Haqqani Recruiting Taliban in Pakistan: US Gen," The News, 14 January 2007). Lxxv Also see interview with Barnet Rubin by the Council on Foreign Relations (Barnett R. Rubin and Bernard Gwertzman, Rubin: Afghanistan at Dangerous "Tipping Point'." Council on Foreign Relations, 6 October 2006. Cited 2 May 2007, available at http://www.cfr.org/publication/11620/rubin.html).
76. A "U.S. intelligence source" also reported to CNN that Mullah Omar is in the environs of Quetta (Peter Bergen, Anderson Cooper, and Charlie Moore, Source:MUllah Omar in Pakistan. CNN, 9 September 2006. Cited 2 May 2007).
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86. Ibid.