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| Rising Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan |
| 2023-01-29 |
| [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 TALIBANFor years, the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... 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 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 A long memory helps. I’m envious, my dear. I’ve never had one of those. I was so glad when Fred invented the Related search function — before that I was doing full archive searches, which took much longer. I expect Pakistan to fall into the abyss. One can only hope it will be sooner rather than later, Super Hose. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-29 20:42 |
| #4 A long memory helps. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-29 17:22 |
| #3 I expect Pakistan to fall into the abyss. The tightrope walker has dropped his pole. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-29 16:08 |
| #2 Rantburg is full of little gems like that. How does one find them, Slavising Unineting5672? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-29 09:30 |
| #1 Excellent recapitulation. Add: The day Pakistan was declared as the Islamic Republic, the seeds of the sectarian discord were sown. Not only was that but the country pushed into the lap of the cruel and merciless religious bands getting stronger with the time passage. With the time passage, the religious animosity and cutthroat sectarianism has attained new horrendous heights. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) is a Sunni Deobandi Pakistani organization. It was formed in 1985 by a conservative Sunni cleric Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, in collusion with the then military dictator Ziaul-Haq. Its tacit and declared goal then was and is to stem the spillover influence of 1979 Iranian Revolution in Pakistan. When Pervez Musharraf banned it in 2002 as a terrorist organization, it reemerged under a new name "Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat". The Lashkar-e- Jhangvi is a breakaway faction of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. It was established in 1996 by two former stalwarts of SSP namely Riaz Basra and Malik Ishaq. LJ has ties to the Talban, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Al-Qaida, and Jundullah. These and other religious militant factions have been wreaking havoc by fomenting sectarian wars and forcing the respective government in Pakistan to accept their dictates. Since its establishment, the SSP and LJ have launched countless attacks on the Shias, their religious processions, shrines and mosques killing them in innumerable numbers. -tipper 2013-02-20 07:40|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| | |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-29 07:31 |