ABSTRACT
Modern political science, at any rate, tends to treat assassination, the murder of a political leader, as a terrorist act. Much of modern Pakistan's terrorism from its Sikh minority derives from that group's religious and political dissatisfaction with Muslim Pakistan's leaders. Religion and politics continue to take innocent lives in this turbulent region of the world as India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, stand poised on the brink of war over Kashmir. Modern terrorism continues to occasionally take the form of piracy, but today the piracy is of aircraft as well as sea vessels. Most revolutionary groups assert that it is terrorism by the state that provokes, and by its presence justifies, acts of terror-violence by nonstate groups. The relationship between terror-violence by the state and that of nonstate groups and individuals is evident in the history of many modern nation-states. Modern technology has also rapidly expanded the arsenal available to groups and individuals committing terrorism.
