Emily Schneider is a program associate in the International Security Program at New America. She is also an assistant editor of the South Asia channel.
Pakistani army personnel make their way to the military operation following an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014. Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in one of Pakistan's bloodiest ever attacks. AFP PHOTO / FAROOQ NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photograph taken early December 18, 2014, The Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-III rocket lifts off from The Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, some 80kms north of Chennai. India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, including an unmanned capsule which could one day send astronauts into space, as the country ramps up its ambitious space programme. The rocket, designed to carry heavier communication and other satellites into higher orbit, blasted off from Sriharikota in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian shooter Jaspal Rana holds a burning candle as he pay tribute to Pakistan children and staff killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, in New Delhi on December 17, 2014. Pakistan began three days of mourning on December 17 for the 132 schoolchildren and nine staff killed by the Taliban in the country's deadliest ever terror attack as the world united in a chorus of revulsion. AFP PHOTO / Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani soldiers transport rescued school children from the site of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014. Taliban insurgents killed at least 130 people, most of them children, after storming an army-run school in Pakistan December 16 in one of the country's bloodiest attacks in recent years. AFP PHOTO/ A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan National Army (ANA) soliders inspect at the site of a remote-controlled bomb blast in Jalalabad on November 10, 2014. A remote-controlled bomb hit a police car in Jalalabad city in the east of Afghanistan, killing three police, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial spokesman told AFP. AFP PHOTO/Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani (C) speaks during a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on December 10, 2014. Afghanistan's new President Ashraf Ghani on December 10 condemned CIA torture detailed in a US Senate report, at a specially-convened press conference in Kabul. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
