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2013-06-17 India-Pakistan

Formidable threat: Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in Balochistan

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Posted by Fred 2013-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi

#1 Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the LJ ....

* FREEREPUBLIC > AL-QAEDA, ALIVE + WELL IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-17 00:42|| 2013-06-17 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 The space for non-state actors' singular obsession with crushing the Baloch insurgency through violence meant that other non-state actors were able to take advantage of the state's focus elsewhere. Even worse, there are allegations that the obsession with crushing the Baloch insurgency also led to encouraging pro-state Baloch gunnies who have their own agendas, including developing ties with LJ.

The concept of "crushing" extremists regardless of their flavor seems never to have occurred to the writer. Normal intelligence or police approaches seem to be out as well. In the wake of the Bostom bombing police and/or FBI followed up all the perps' contacts, leading to two more arrests.

If the bad guyz are in a group they know others in the group. The others will know still others. That was how the Indonesians broke up Jemaah Islamiyah. The Pak police seem incapable of doing that, and I think it's as a matter of policy, not ineptitude, though there's enough of that as well.

Posted by Fred 2013-06-17 10:55|| 2013-06-17 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it's as a matter of policy, not ineptitude

That would be at the policy level of management, Fred. It seems to me, after reading about it all these years, that it's a choice at the individual soldier/policeman level, independent of government policy. Whether it is an issue of corruption (yes) or personal sympathy and/or fear of the taqfiris (yes/yes), the outcome is the same -- no pursuit of that kind of bad guy. Though to be fair, they aren't good at chasing down common criminals, either.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-06-17 15:17|| 2013-06-17 15:17|| Front Page Top

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