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2023-01-29 India-Pakistan
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Rising Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan
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[OneIndia] Another worrying aspect of the terrorist nexus in Pakistan is the emergence of the Punjabi Taliban, a loose terror network that has spread all over Pakistan. This group is not only in cahoots with the Pakistani Taliban but they also have suspected links with al-Qaeda.
Several sections can be read at the link covering the growth of Islamism in Pakistan from independence in 1947, PM Bhutto, the military coup of General Zia ul-Haz, Afghan refugees during the Afghanistans’s Marxist/Soviet period. Jumping back in: RISE & RISE OF TALIBAN
For years, the Afghan Taliban
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were considered an 'asset' in Pakistain's establishment circles. They were trained and funded by the State so that Pakistain would not have an 'enemy' to deal with Western border. A nexus between the local Taliban and their counterparts in Afghanistan has by now become obvious. After the US invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban, the Northern Alliance came to power. Musharraf adopted a dual policy when it came to handing over bandidos hard boyz to the Americans. The Afghan Taliban were protected while members of al-Qaeda were caught and subsequently handed over.
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The local Taliban have already disrupted peace in the country with their terrorist attacks both against the security forces and civilians. An unprecedented attack by the Afghan Taliban on a border check post is indicative of the emerging nexus between them and the Pak Taliban. They have intervened at the behest of the local Taliban in order to put pressure on the army. Pakistain 'strategic depth' policy has proved disastrous. This attack by the Afghan Taliban on forces leaves room for skepticism whether they would ever prove to be an asset for Pakistain.
Another worrying aspect vis-à-vis the terrorist nexus is the emergence of the Punjabi Taliban, a loose terror network that has spread all over Pakistain. This group is not only in cahoots with the Pak Taliban but they also have suspected links with al-Qaeda. It is about time that the so-called assets of the State like the 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 ...
, Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad , a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
and Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned , always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
are disbanded and crushed. These groups have enjoyed State patronage for years.
US commitment to fighting communism in Afghanistan and the readiness of Pakistain to serve as a pliant tool in its hands brought the two countries closer to each other. The US was also keen to find a country, which could fight its war, after the debacle of its policy of direct engagement in Vietnam. The US provided a huge amount of money and supplies of arms and ammunition, which were routed to the Afghan fighters through the ISI and madrasas. Thus, there was no shortage of money, material, moral and official support to the religious leaders and parties, which led to the strengthening of their positions.
These factors provided a strong fillip to the Islamic fundamentalist parties, which assumed a significant role not only in the Afghan war but also in Pakistain. The period saw a sudden increase in the number of madrasas due to support and liberal doses of funds from the government and other Moslem countries. A number of mercenaries were engaged from Sudan and several Arab countries along with Afghans. The lack of any modern education and sole interpretation of Islam by traditional 'mullahs' in these madrasas produced very rigid, orthodox and highly motivated students, who were ready to die in the name of Islam, fighting against the 'kafirs'.
MUSHROOMING OF TERROR OUTFITS
Support for the Afghan war, which could be sustained by Pakistain only in the name of Islam, also provided it with much-needed financial aid from the US. The deadly combination of money, weapons and religion provided highly fertile ground for religious parties to flourish. Pakistain also used the Islamic card for forging close links with religious fundamentalists in the Middle-East. Since support to the Mujahideens was covert, the religious parties were given a free hand, which used official patronage and power towards their own political ends. Many of these parties like Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society , founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer . The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI), Jamjat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Pakistain (JUP), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP), Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistain (SMP) and their front organization like Islami Jamaat-e-Tulaba (IJT), cultivated foreign links, mainly financial. While the Sunni parties draw ideological inspiration from al-Ikhwan al-Moslemeen and financial help from Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, Libya, Iraq and other countries. The Iranians have been helping the Imamia Students Organisations through their cultural centres. Regular visits by Islamic holy mans and students from Arab countries and the links between Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
-based religious organizations, other pan-Islamic organizations like the Rabita al-Alam, al-Islami and organs of the OIC also contributed substantially to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistain.
Pakistain provided ideological and military training to a number of Arab mercenaries during the Afghan war. Over a period of time, JI and JUI-sponsored training camps mushroomed between Pakistain's tribal areas in NWFP and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and Afghan territory. These camps produced not only fighters but also instructors for spreading their teachings. With the end of the Afghan war, these trained terrorists/fundamentalist elements stayed back in Pakistain. These trained cadres, trigger-happy to spread terror anywhere in the world, formed the nucleus of a new pan-Islamic/mercenary force, with serious implications for the secular aspirations of the free world.
In the midst of growing political instability and economic crisis, the return of terrorism has aggravated Pakistain's security challenges. There has been a dramatic escalation in terrorist attacks over the past few months, with assassinations, suicide kabooms and attacks on security installations becoming a daily affair in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Law enforcement agencies have been the main target of the terror group, which seems to be operating with impunity. The provincial administration has virtually collapsed in the face of the terrorist onslaught.
Although religious parties in Pakistain won only a few seats in the National and Provincial Assembly in elections, they enjoy great political clout in the country due to its unstable political conditions and lack of a clear majority to any political party. The official patronage and free hand enjoyed by these terrorist organizations have emboldened them to the extent that even the government cannot afford to take on them.
TTP, THE FRIEND-TURNED-FOE
It's not only KP but also Balochistan that has been hit by the latest wave of terrorism. What is most worrisome is the apparent alliance between the TTP and some Baloch separatist groups. The nexus is seen as responsible for the series of recent terrorist attacks targeting security forces in the western province. Pakistain's security forces had contained the insurgency to some extent, but the latest spike in attacks indicates that secessionist groups are gaining strength once more. There is no law and order in tribal areas of NWFP and Balochistan where tribes are involved in drug trafficking, smuggling and other illegal activities. The recent incidents in Malakand division (NWFP) and Bara Tehsil (Khyber Agency
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), where tribals armed with sophisticated and heavy weapons clashed with security forces over the implementation of Sharia laws in their areas, is also a fall out of Islamic fundamentalism.
Since Pakistain wants to show to the world that Kashmiris themselves are fighting for their rights in Kashmir
 ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
against India, it is providing funds, military training and weapons to the holy warriors through religious parties like JI & JUI. The analysis indicates that both the government and religious parties in Pakistain are using the name of Islam to achieve their ends, but claim that their politicianship is not religious.
The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism also provided a serious threat to the freedom of expression as could be seen by the threat to Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen. These trends can only pose a serious threat to a free and democratic social system. The connection of Ramzi Ahmad Yousaf and Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
group with Islamic universities is only the tip of the iceberg. Linkages of these groups across the globe only point toward the dangers lying ahead of the civilised world.
Another trend is the emergence of unorganised Islamic terrorist groups as it is more difficult to identify them. These groups are more dangerous because no party can be blamed for their terrorist activities, which they can carry out without any hindrance. There are reports that some terrorist groups are criminal masterminding the techniques of computer warfare. Under this technique, they will be able to jam the computer networks, acquire highly sensitive data and bring the functioning of vital institutions to a standstill, thereby paralysing their activities. This trend is a serious challenge to the developed world.
THE END IS NOT TOO FAR
The facts indicate that the use of Islamic fundamentalism to achieve non-religious aims by Pakistain has created the proverbial Frankenstein's monster. The threat posed by fundamentalist holy warriors can prove to be more serious than war as their ability to hit any part of the world has already been proven. If these groups also acquire chemical or biological or small nuclear weapons then the future of whole humanity will be imperilled.
The intolerant attitude of Islamic holy warriors towards any view different from the teachings of Islam also poses a serious threat to the free-thinking society and can stop the evolution of new ideas. Therefore, the civilised, progressive and free world, which believes in the dignity of human beings and freedom of thought and expression, can avoid this trend only at the cost of its existence. 
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