New Taliban Communication Archive hosted by DIIS

The Library at the Danish Institute for International Studies is now the host of a new archive consisting of communication and recruitment materials issued by the Pakistani Taliban. The Taliban Communication Archive (TCA), which is the first of its kind on the Pakistani Taliban, is an ongoing project which will be expanded with time.

The TCA contains recruitment videos, leaflets and night letters (shabnamen), jihadi anthems (taranay), and press releases to local media. Most of the materials are issued in Urdu, a few in Pashto, and they are mostly collected from the Tribal Areas and the Khyber Paktunkwa Province (KPP) of Pakistan. At this point the TCA consists of data collected from 2007 and onwards (mostly up to 2011).

The Taliban Communication Archive (TCA) is an initiative by senior researcher Mona Kanwal Sheikh who has collected the materials through contacts in Pakistan during several years.

The material is not available online but can be accessed at the DIIS library.

For further information, please go to: www.diis.dk/tca