History Main / SouthAsianTerrorists

* ''Film/MyNameIsKhan'' has a recurring storyline where Rizwan Khan is discriminated against by the American public after 9/11 due to his Muslim heritage. At one point, he's arrested by law enforcement officers due to being MistakenForTerrorist when he mentions "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist."
* Film/{{Omerta|2018}}: The story is centred around terrorists from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, particularly the main character- Omar Saeed Sheikh who is a British-Pakistani man.

Terrorists based in the region of South Asia ({{UsefulNotes/Afghanistan}}, {{UsefulNotes/Bangladesh}}, {{UsefulNotes/Bhutan}}, the UsefulNotes/BritishIndianOceanTerritory, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), who conduct guerrilla operations against domestic and foreign governments and interests. They can be religious extremists, DirtyCommunists or radical separatists, and are often involved in arms smuggling and the drug trade.

Terrorists based in the region of South Asia ({{UsefulNotes/Afghanistan}}, {{UsefulNotes/Bangladesh}}, {{UsefulNotes/Bhutan}}, the British Indian Ocean Territory, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), who conduct guerrilla operations against domestic and foreign governments and interests. They can be religious extremists, DirtyCommunists or radical separatists, and are often involved in arms smuggling and the drug trade.

Terrorists based in the region of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the British Indian Ocean Territory, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), who conduct guerrilla operations against domestic and foreign governments and interests. They can be religious extremists, DirtyCommunists or radical separatists, and are often involved in arms smuggling and the drug trade.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconFutureSoldier'' has you fighting Pakistani insurgents alongside the Pakistan military in Peshawar in order to capture an unknown gunrunner who's been running serious hardware, mil-spec technology and possibly nuclear material.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' has you fighting Pakistani insurgents alongside the Pakistan military in Peshawar in order to capture an unknown gunrunner who's been running serious hardware, mil-spec technology and possibly nuclear material.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has an unnamed Afghan guerrilla force led by a man named Majhid, who was able to recruit Japanese orphan Sousuke Sagara and ex-Soviet Army Spetsnaz officer Andrei Kalinin against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and Soviet-led occupation troops.

* Like [[FollowTheLeader Modern Warfare 2 above]], ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor2010'' has an obvious expy of the Taliban in the Afghan OPFOR[[note]]They were suppose to be the actual Taliban, but American MoralGuardians complained and forced the developers to change the name of the group to OPFOR[[/note]]. It's sequel, ''Medal of Honor: Warfighter'', has Pakistani jihadists.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork1'' has TheDragon, Yahoot, who is clearly suppose to be a South Asian of Himalayan descent with his dark skin, bindi, facial features, hand pose and Buddhist-like robe. The [[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior anime]] confirms this by adding his home country of Namasty, based on India.

Like Middle Eastern terrorists, South Asian terrorists are increasingly popular as antagonists in modern military-themed media with the advent of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, particularly with the War in Afghanistan and the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict Indo-Pakistani Conflict]].

* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]]'' has the Afghan OPFOR, an obvious {{Expy}} of the Taliban.

* Being set in an AlternateHistory timeline where, among other things, Pakistan was never separated from the Republic of India, the ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' mod for ''[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hearts of Iron IV]]'' features the Pakistani Mujahideen, an Islamist terrorist group that seeks to purify Pakistan from the Hindu presence and build a Pakistani Islamic state.

* ''Series/TheBarrier'': After the PropagandaMachine frames [[spoiler:the gunning down of the passengers of a resistance-operated transport smuggling people out of Madrid]] as the takedown of a terrorist cell, one of the characters supporting the New Spain dictatoriship is shown to conflate people of South Asian descent with terrorists. In single statement, she claims that before the dictatorship took over, terrorists walked around freely, she had trouble running into a white face and Madrid looked like New Delhi.

* ''Bollywood/MyNameIsKhan'' has a recurring storyline where Rizwan Khan is discriminated against by the American public after 9/11 due to his Muslim heritage. At one point, he's arrested by law enforcement officers due to being MistakenForTerrorist when he mentions "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist."