Pakistan Needs To Do Much More to Deal with Intensified Communal and Sectarian Conflicts in Punjab despite Fierce Internal Conflict among Terror Outfits
By Mujahid Hussain, New Age Islam
03 June, 2014
There have been more deadly attacks on the security personnel in the tribal areas. Probability is that such attacks will be repeated with much intensity in times to come. The reason is that the Talibani outfits have developed bitter rivalry and are fighting with each other fiercely. Apparently, we see internal conflicts within our enemies as favourable to our interests, but this is not the case with the Talibani extremists.
For the ongoing internal war within the Talibani factions seems to create more problems for the security forces of Pakistan. On the other hand, several groups that separated from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and were believed to be well-wishers of the Pakistani state are now valueless, either because of losing the power and organisational capability or due to their retreat to the totalitarianism of the TTP. The main reason behind it is that the TTP is dominated by foreign extremists who, unlike the local extremists, have no soft corner for the state of Pakistan. Most of them have been engaged in militancy since the war started in Afghanistan and have consolidated their ties with the Al-Qaida. Although they have good standing in the local areas, their source of power emanates from the foreign countries where their financers and funding organisations are based. Thus, while they enjoy huge respect and support in the local areas, they are enormously funded by them to wage war in the name of Jihad in Pakistan.
By Mujahid Hussain, New Age Islam
03 June, 2014
There have been more deadly attacks on the security personnel in the tribal areas. Probability is that such attacks will be repeated with much intensity in times to come. The reason is that the Talibani outfits have developed bitter rivalry and are fighting with each other fiercely. Apparently, we see internal conflicts within our enemies as favourable to our interests, but this is not the case with the Talibani extremists.
For the ongoing internal war within the Talibani factions seems to create more problems for the security forces of Pakistan. On the other hand, several groups that separated from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and were believed to be well-wishers of the Pakistani state are now valueless, either because of losing the power and organisational capability or due to their retreat to the totalitarianism of the TTP. The main reason behind it is that the TTP is dominated by foreign extremists who, unlike the local extremists, have no soft corner for the state of Pakistan. Most of them have been engaged in militancy since the war started in Afghanistan and have consolidated their ties with the Al-Qaida. Although they have good standing in the local areas, their source of power emanates from the foreign countries where their financers and funding organisations are based. Thus, while they enjoy huge respect and support in the local areas, they are enormously funded by them to wage war in the name of Jihad in Pakistan.
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