[DAWN] KARACHI: The government of Pakistain has said that the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LJ) has an affiliation with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a report published on the BBCUrdu website said.
In a letter sent to all provinces, the Interior Ministry said that the banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization had sought help from Al Qaeda but upon refusal had formed a nexus with TTP.
The letter states that LJ Lion of Islams, in an attempt to free their organization's imprisoned members, may possibly go to the extent of holding ordinary people hostage.
The interior ministry also said that LJ has made a man named Abdul Rehman from Kabirwala, Punjab, in charge of its activities in the province. It added that Rehman has planned various attacks in Lahore and other parts of Punjab.
The letter also mentioned that following a crack down by security forces and personnel from law enforcement agencies against the group, its members had sought help from Al Qaeda. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
Al Qaeda had refused to help LJ due to its engagement in Iraq and Syria.
The interior ministry said that after Al Qaeda's rejection, the group contacted TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
who has promised to provide not only financial support to LJ but had also pledged to lend more support to the banned outfit.
The letter also state that imambargahs were being targeted in the country to pressurise the government to halt executions of convicts belonging to terrorist organizations.
The government believes that the recent spike in terrorist attacks in the country was the result of the affiliation between LJ and TTP. However,
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the responsibility of an attack on an imambargah in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
was claimed by TTP with the terrorist group also releasing a video of the attackers.
A number of convicted LJ Death Eaters have been executed since the government rolled back the moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of the Dec 2014 attack on Peshawar's Army Public School.
The Dec 16 attack had resulted in the formulation of a National Action Plan to counter terrorism which also saw a parliamentary consensus on the formation of military courts in the country as well as renewed resolve to counter religious extremism by cracking down on terror financing and regulating madrassahs.
Since the government set the NAP rolling, the country has seen a number of terrorist attacks -- the major ones being attacks on imambargahs in Rawalpindi, Shikarpur and Peshawar as well as a recent attack targeted the police in Lahore.