Pakistan in the business of waging “deniable” jihad with the help of “non-state actors”?

Pakistan in the business of waging “deniable” jihad with the help of “non-state actors”?

And now the ‘reverse’ jihad

An editorial in The Daily Times, Lahore

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Our misfortune is that that all sides fighting on Pakistani soil claim the obligation of jihad as their motive for violence. Those who attack and those who defend also claim the status of martyr for their dead. In Swat, the “piety” of the militants is being demonstrated through the courts set up by them, doling out punitive verdicts without much examination of evidence. It is said that there are three types of Taliban operating in Pakistan: the Afghan plus non-Afghan “foreigners” attached to Al Qaeda; the Pakistani Taliban who are demanding a change in Pakistan’s foreign policy and enforcement of their tough sharia; and criminals who enrich themselves through jihad.

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