Ex-Soviet Central Asia:
The Tajik party of the Islamic Renaissance (PIR)
The Islamic movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Hizb ul-Tahrir (Party of liberation)

Afghanistan : from the Islamists to the Taliban and Al-Qaida

Pakistan : from religious conservatism to political radicalism:
Deobandi movements and violent action
The active jihadist tendency in Kashmir and Afghanistan from the Harakat ul-Ansar to the Jaish-i-Muhammad
Salafism and jihadism

Connections and dynamics:
The al-Qaida movement and the Afghans : the fusion between the Taliban and al-Qaida, the role of Pakistan, the Pakistani military intelligence services and the radical tendency
Pakistani Islamists at the heart of transnational links
The Pakistanisation of Al-Qaida
The blurring of strategic and ideological alignments.