Pak's Jihad culture is coming home to roost--- to paraphrase Jessica Stern in Foreign affairs.
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When Jihadis return home By Ashfak Bokhari
Stern, whose article is titled "Pakistan's Jihad culture", is a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
Read these alarming notes:
1:current agenda is limited to 'liberating Kashmir'... their next objective is to turn Pakistan into a truly Islamic state".
2:"Although their current agenda is limited to 'liberating Kashmir'... their next objective is to turn Pakistan into a truly Islamic state".
3: with South Asia as the leading locus of terrorism in the world.
4: Jihadis carry on in their own way: first, to avenge separation of East Pakistan and; second, using "irregulars" is a relatively cheap way to keep Indian forces tied down. The military has only to facilitate militants' passage into Indian part of Kashmir.
5: . She says Pakistan now faces a typical "principal-agent" problem: the interests of state (principal) and those of the militant groups (the agent) are not fully aligned. In other words, the Jihadi groups (that Pakistan supports) and Sunni sectarian militants (that Pakistan opposes) overlap significantly and Pakistan government is inadvertently promoting sectarianism within the country.
6: Boys trained to fight in Kashmir are also indoctrinated to consider Shias as "Kafirs".
7: Sunnis against Shiaas respectively supported by Saudis and Iranians
8: fought in Afghanistan are now fighting in Kashmir and "are to continue looking for new jihads to fight - even against Pakistan itself."
9: Madrassahs, about 40,000 in Pakistan, teach their students that jihad is a spiritual duty. Wealthy Pakistanis, who subscribe to jihad doctrine, donate their money, NOT SONS, to the cause while poor families donate their sons, not money, as they believe that this will help them in the next life. it a better option to let their children die in jihad rather than from disease. 10: Little osamas are born everyday. Babies are named Osamas. |
