In October 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks, he appeared on national television to advocate training and arming qualified commercial airline pilots to prevent against future hijackings. He founded the Airline Pilots Security Alliance, which lobbied Congress in support of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program that exists today to enable pilots to defend against future hijackings. In December 2002 and February 2003, just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Giuda traveled to Pakistan-held Kashmir on a series of fact-finding missions to investigate atrocities against Muslim civilians allegedly being committed by the Indian Armed Forces and paramilitary forces. The mission included meetings with military leaders, members of Pakistan's cabinet, the National Assembly of Pakistan and Senate, and then-President Pervez Musharraf. Upon returning to New Hampshire, Giuda drafted and successfully shepherded a House Concurrent Resolution which led to U.S. House hearings on the ongoing atrocities in Kashmir. He later founded and chaired Americans for Resolution of Kashmir or "ARK" to educate Americans about the conflict in Kashmir and its relevance to national security. Upon returning to the United States, Giuda was featured on the front page of "The New York Times" International section as a result of the investigation into the atrocities in Kashmir; he also personally helped Pakistan's president prepare for meetings with US diplomats at Camp David. Giuda also presided over a panel discussion on "The Human Rights Dimension of the Kashmir Problem," where speakers from both sides of the issue respectively placed blame for Kashmir insurgency on Indian human rights violations and Kashmiri freedom fighters. In November 2005, he led a humanitarian relief team to the small village of Kafal Garh, above sea level in Kashmir, in the aftermath of the devastating October earthquake that killed an estimated 80,000 people in Pakistan. The team provided funding to construct metal shelters to deal with the onset of winter and an average snowfall of 28 feet. In June 2009, he formed an exploratory committee for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district seat. He announced his candidacy in October 2009 and officially filed as a candidate with the New Hampshire Secretary of State on June 8, 2010. Incumbent Paul Hodes was seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Judd Gregg, who was retiring. Hodes' intention to run for Senate left an open seat in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, for which five Republicans and two Democrats declared and filed as candidates. The Second Congressional District at the time of the election consisted of the western and northern portions of the state, including all of Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan counties as well as almost all of Merrimack and Hillsborough counties plus three towns in Rockingham County and two towns in Belknap County.