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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Why Hafiz Saeed and his L-e-T’’s links with ISI are unbreakable,

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad
Why Hafiz Saeed and his L-e-T’’s links with ISI are unbreakable
INSIDE JIHAD: ARMY OF THE PURE
By Zahid Husain

These militant organizations were not clandestine nor had they sprouted surreptitiously. Their growth, if not actually sponsored, had certainly been looked upon with favour by the state.(4) Their activities were not secret, and found expression in graffiti, wall posters and pamphlets all over the country, inviting Muslims to join forces with them. They also carried addresses and telephone numbers to contact for training. ‘Jihad is the shortest route to paradise,’ declared one of the many exhortations. ‘A martyr ensures salvation for the entire family.’ Every jihadist organization had funds to help families of ‘martyrs’. Although money was not the primary motivation of jihadists, it was essential to sustain the culture of jihad. (5) The state’s patronage helped the jihadists to raise funds at public places. The militant groups had developed a powerful propaganda machinery. Their publication had gained a large readership and their messages were also available on video and audiotapes.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the objective of jihadist movements in Pakistan was not, like that of Arab Salafists such as bin Laden, the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate. Their objectives were more in line with the regional strategy of the Pakistani military establishment: the liberation of Kashmir from India and the installation of a Pashtun Islamist government in Afghanistan. Almost all the Islamic militant groups served as instruments of Pakistan’s regional policy. The army needed them as much as they needed the army. After 9/11, Pakistan’s support for the American-led war on terror pitted it against its former clients. Although as the following chapter shows, this did not mean that support for them in the state security apparatus was completely withdrawn.

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