The wave of the suicide attacks has posed a new security threat to Pakistan. With the recent suicide attack in Charsada, the number of such attacks in the country has risen to over 20 in a year.
Suicide attacks are not new phenomena in Pakistan as country has suffered from 37 suicide attacks during last six years. But the investigation revealed that not a single but multiple militant and terrorist outfits like tribal Taliban, jihadist organizations and Al-Qaeda were involved in these incidents. This is the real problem for the law enforcement agencies to sort out the different groups, motives and tactics behind the attacks.
| We face kinda the same problem here at Rantburg, though it doesn't matter that much. There are chain of command differences, but the overall strategy originates in Chitral, whether it's executed through Peshawar or Quetta or Mir Ali. |
The suicide attacks in Pakistan can be traced back in Afghan Jihad.
| Except that the real mujaheddin fighting the Russers didn't blow themselves up. I believe the tactic was actually invented by the Tamil Tigers, who still use it now and then when they can find a sucker. It was then picked up by the Paleos, notably Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the occasional al-Aqsa Martyr. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad used it a few times in Kashmir with indifferent results. Sammy thought it was sufficiently diabolical to set up his own fedayeen brigades, and from there it was picked up by al-Qaeda in Iraq. Only after the muhajiroun Arabs were exploding regularly in Iraq did the practice get imported into Afghanistan and from there to Pakland. At least that's the way I recall it. |
The Arabs were the founders of the lethal attacks. |