Problems and Prospects in Countering Non-Traditional Threats in Central Asia and Balkan Regions

In the Central and Balkans regions the challenges of facing the non-traditional threats have become more complicated in recent years. If before 2001 it was just a few main militant groups, recently their numbers increased to some 40 groups, which are freely operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan as well as crossing over to Tajikistan. These facts prove that there are foreign clandestine centers working for promotion of the new militants groups that design and finance them based on their geographical, ethnic and political determinations. The increase in number of research centers with military affiliations, working as analytical centers of the air force and other army affiliates have explored insurgent movements. Therefore lately it has not been easy for both regions to struggle with scores of mobile militants groups. Meanwhile, some groups are openly functioning in Balkan countries, while they are banned in Central Asian countries as terrorist organizations. The typical tactical countering mistakes it’s a focusing only to South and Central Asia, need look more broadly, including also the Caucasus and Balkan regions. Because militants operated in Afghanistan have nexuses with European, Albanian, Turkish, Kurdish drug mafia’s networks. These networks have increased their presence in the main production state to gain a better control over the whole supply chain. This transnational organized crime also defend their markets and production networks.The militants take care of opium and heroin traffics, and also have to get rid through converting to money, small arms and some other material. Without cardinal counter measures it will be accelerate process of expanding the extremist’s group’s activities to the secular countries in Balkans, North Caucasus and Central Asia. Therefore one is effective counter measures to mitigate the religious militants threats its revive and penetrate by secular states the traditionalists directions of religion with strong cultural factors.