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2023-08-12 India-Pakistan
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Religious Ideology Of Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir
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[MEMRI.ORG] The religious ideology of Pakistain Army chief General Syed Asim Munir, who believes in jihad, albeit those jihads that are sponsored by his army, has attracted the attention of Islamists who are smitten by the fact that he is the first hafiz (i.e., one who has memorized the Koran) to become army chief. So, it is not surprising that in a public address in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
on August 7, 2023, General Asim Munir relied on terminology from jihadi discourse, using words like shari'a, kalimah, khawarij, jihad fi Sabeelillah ("jihad in the path of Allah"), and so on.
On August 7, a meeting of elders, tribal chieftains, Islamic religious scholars, and others, known as a grand jirga, was called in Peshawar to shape public opinion against Tehrik-e-Taliban
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 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP), a Pak jihadi organization that is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban jihadi organization that rode to power in Kabul with all the material blessings of the Pakistain army. Now the TTP is killing Pak soldiers in the border region with alarming regularity to establish shari'a in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and beyond, and Pak military generals are getting worried.
Most of Pakistain's problems are rooted in an unending conflict between the use of religion and the demands of circumstances in defining Pak domestic and foreign policy. This is the reason Pak military's Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI) has birthed and nurtured a host of jihadi organizations over past decades — the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, 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...
, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors , founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat . Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
, and others — to advance its foreign policy goals in Afghanistan and 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....
, while politicians and policymakers have also frequently favored Islamist forces. For example, when he was speaking in Peshawar, Pakistain's Senate passed yet another law on blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
to punish anyone who insults the wives and companions of Muhammad.
Munir is perhaps the second former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country's most powerful institution known for creating, nurturing, sheltering and using jihadi organizations in Kashmir and Afghanistan, to become chief of the Army. The other was General Ashfaq Kayani
... four star general, Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani was the former Director General of ISI...
. Munir is the third officer, after Lt.-Gen. Asad Durrani and Lt.-Gen.  Hamid Gul
The nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, Godfather to Mullah Mohammad Blinky Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command, now thankfully among the dear (or relatively so) departed...
, who has the distinction of having headed both the ISI and the Military Intelligence.
Addressing the grand jirga, Munir said: "The Pakistain army is the army of deaders whose motto is imaan, taqwa aur jihad fi Sabeelillah [faith, piety, and jihad in the Path of Allah]. We are from amongst you, and you are from amongst us. After the Riyasat-e-Medina [the State of Medina, the first Islamic state established by Prophet Muhammad], Pakistain is the second state established based on Kalimah. No power of the world can harm Pakistain."
Munir's language is primarily that of Islamists in Pakistain. "We are waging jihad in the path of Allah and success will be ours, Allah willing. Mighty Pak Army's objective and principle is to be shaheed [martyr] or ghazi [one who takes part in jihad]," the army chief said, using language like that of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and other jihadi groups. His language will also confuse young Paks, who hear the same words from jihadis. Munir could have spoken about the need for counterterrorism, since the audience was mainly Pashtun, who are fiercely secular, but he turned to a religious discourse that will buttress TTP's position.
Even when Munir dismissed TTP and other jihadi organizations as khawarij, he still resorted to arguments often used by jihadi groups that only Allah's rule, not man-made laws, can prevail. Nowadays, rival jihadi groups describe each other as khawarij they all consider the Pakistain army to be an apostate and an unbelieving force. The Pak military website also defines Jihad fi Sabeelillah saying: "The real objective of Islam is to shift the lordship of man over man to the lordship of Allah on the earth and to stake one's life and everything else to achieve this sacred purpose."
Munir told the Peshawar jirga: "Under the Pak constitution, the authority is that of Allah alone. Who are these khawarij who want to implement shari'a? I and my brave army will fight till the last drop of blood in this war against terrorism."
Soon after Munir was named as the next army chief, Learned Elders of Islam (religious scholars), mashaikh (Sufi mystics), and Islamic holy mans celebrated because a hafiz was set to become the chief of the armed forces. Such religious scholars included: Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, chairman of Pakistain Ulema Council; Sufi mystic Pir Hasan Haseebur Rahman; Maulana Syed Ziaullah Shah, the emir of Muttahida Jamaat Ahl Hadith; Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, the emir of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
; Muhammad Khan Laghari, the secretary general of Muttahida Ulema Council; Allama Arif Wahidi, vice president of Shia Ulema Council; and many others. 
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