Pakistan begins crackdown on Islamist militant groups

[Jugger]

Yes please vote for Imran Khan in your elections.

Yes I will use my contacts to vote for him.
Imran will get atleast 3 votes due to my contacts.

 

[Baghial]

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Pakistan’s Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi, right, and Interior Secretary Azam Suleman Khan give a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.

8:55 pm, March 06, 2019

ReutersISLAMABAD (Reuters) — Pakistan said on Tuesday it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned organizations including close relatives of the leader of a group blamed for a deadly bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month.

The interior ministry said it was a move to “speed up action against all proscribed organizations.” Officials said it was part of a long-planned drive against militant groups, not a response to Indian anger over what New Delhi calls Islamabad’s failure to rein in militant groups operating on Pakistani soil.

Pakistan is facing pressure from global powers to act against groups carrying out attacks in India, including Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which claimed responsibility for the Feb. 14 attack that killed at least 40 paramilitary police.

The incident led to the most serious conflict in years between the nuclear-armed neighbors, with cross-border air strikes and a brief dogfight over the skies of Kashmir. Tension cooled when Pakistan returned a downed Indian pilot on Friday.

In a further sign that tensions were easing, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said a delegation would visit New Delhi next week to discuss an accord on Sikh pilgrims visiting holy sites in Pakistan.

The interior ministry said close relatives of JeM leader Masood Azhar had been detained in “preventive custody” as part of the crackdown. It named them as Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar, who one ministry official said was the leader’s son.

On Tuesday, Pakistan placed two charities linked to Hafiz Saeed, founder of a militant organization the United States and India have blamed for numerous deadly attacks, including a siege by gunmen in Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people, on the country’s official banned list.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation charities were placed on the list after the government announced the restriction last month.

Some of the people detained were named by India in a dossier it gave to Pakistan after last month’s bombing, Interior Secretary Azam Suleman Khan said.

“We are investigating them and if we get more evidence, more proof against them, they will be proceeded against according to law and if we don’t get any proof their detention will end,” Suleman said.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told CNN last week that JeM chief Azhar was in Pakistan and was “really unwell.”

The United States, Britain and France proposed last month that the U.N. Security Council blacklist Azhar.

A Security Council vote is due to be held in mid-March. However, Pakistan’s staunch ally China, a Security Council member, has blocked previous attempts by world powers to sanction the JeM chief.

The United States and Britain have urged Pakistan to deal with militant groups.

Many Pakistani groups and individuals are under U.N. sanctions, including the JeM, and Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group that carried out the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, in which 166 people were killed.

There was no immediate official reaction in India to the arrests in Pakistan.

However, an Indian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed skepticism.

“We have all seen this done for the last several decades now. How many times has Hafiz Saeed been arrested and let out?” the official said. “And have they taken action against Jaish camps?”

Saeed, who holds public gatherings in Pakistan, has been at the heart of criticism that Pakistan does not enforce its anti-militancy laws.

Pakistan has long used Islamist groups to pursue its aims in the region, but it has denied New Delhi’s accusations it actively supports militants fighting Indian forces in India’s part of Muslim-majority Kashmir.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005587597

And by the end of PTI govt rule of 5 yrs..
Pakistan would have recognise isreal as a friendly brother...
Imran is a jew lover....its comming clear now...
No wonder he is selected pm....
He was t elected pm.....
Hi poodinay kee riasat will accept isreal ...just so economy gets better..


Meaning that .we become friends with every . Tom. Duck. N harry..
Just for some read crums...
What a naya vision...
Pulwama.. was planned false flag. .. by india and pakistan.....

Because this skrimish created more confusion and space for both armies...to operate in..

Remember APS.. PESHWAR...
REMEMBER 9/11...
look what raviged the world after these incidents...

 

[El Sidd]

Yes I will use my contacts to vote for him.
Imran will get atleast 3 votes due to my contacts.

Good for you.

Now stop leeching.

 

[shahbaz baig]

We should mainstream them because this is the only sensible option in the end, just like US is negotiating with Taliban despite the fact Talibans are designated as terrorist in UN. And now Taliban are going to be a part of mainstream. Otherwise be ready for v2.0 of TTP.

 

[Pakistani E]

Good. These groups are not required. It was a huge mistake to even allow them to breed and multiply. Hope this time the state doesn't stop half way and allow them to regroup. Like @Rusty said, only the state should have the right to use force.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

They left schools to learn in madrassa and you are saying to educate them.
Let talk about Abur Rashid ghazi from Lal masjid, he completed Msc in international relation from quaid e azam university , but he made interational relation with taliban and jihadi groups,as he was religious guy and his basic education was religious.
You can't change religious motivated people. 75 + banned terrorist organizations in Pakistan , once poison is spread, there is no cure. Just kill them. This is only the way we are dealing with terrorism, extremism, & sectarianism with iron hands.
Our army doing good job to kill those rats.

He was a dangerous personality, but that situation could have been handled differently. Many innocent people died in the siege on Lal Masjid, and it brought down Musharraf’s government.

Lashkar and Jaish, from what I know, have always been loyal to Pakistan and never engaged in any anti-state activities.

More dangerous than them are PTM/ANP, TTP, BLA, BLF, LeJ TLP.

The thing which I don’t like is that it gives Modi a free victory to sell at home, as he will spin it as our response to his attacks on Pakistan. It sets a dangerous precedent for the future.

Totally understand FATF, but it may not even be enough to stop it. Some countries have vested interests in keeping us down.

 

[Anotherangle]

EX PM Nawaz Sharif said the same thing but what happened we know.
آج یہ بزدل گھر صاف کر رہے ہیں دھمکیوں کے بعد

 

[Imran Khan]

By giving up to their demands? sounds nice idea.

EX PM Nawaz Sharif said the same thing but what happened we know.
آج یہ بزدل گھر صاف کر رہے ہیں دھمکیوں کے بعد

bhai buzdil acha hai saddam ya qaddafi hony se . mulk ka wasee tar mafad ab is main hi hai . think abut UNGA and FATF . pakistan can not take more risk for few individuals paksitan is for some 220 million people not for 22 people . her cheez bahudri nhi hoti mamla fehmi bhi zaroori hai

 

[cocomo]

Maybe recuirt them for some sort of voluntary force under full state control. Something like IRGC.

 

[El Sidd]

Something like IRGC.

whose your Khomeni?

jinnah?

 

[Pak_Sher]

You are mistaken, most of these groups are already tied to Pakistani politicians, namely N league but they have PTI supporters too. They are apolitical, and cut across sectarian lines, mostly they give speeches and lectures about Kashmir to keep the cause active.

These are not militant groups, and they don't engage in militant activity. They only given moral support to Kashmir freedom fighters, like Pakistani government.

The West is using these groups only as a ruse and they will quickly move unto other carrot and stick type of pressure tactics.



We are still living in a fairy land where we think that bowing to outside pressure will somehow placate our enemies, it won't.

Enemies will remain. We need to secure the economy that is required for the entire population and it's well being.

 

[jamal18]

I see we have accepted the western/Indian paradigm that the problem is 'terrorism'.

The problem is the war inflicted on a captive population. 'Terrorism' is the backlash.

 

[Longhorn]

If there is no evidence of involvement in Pulwama, they have to be released. We are a nation of laws, and shouldn't do PR moves to placate West without solid evidence.

India has yet to provide actionable intelligence as it doesn't exist.

It is asinine to go after pro-Kashmiri groups in Pakistan without dealing with the major issue, which is RSS, BJP, VHP, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal rhetoric in India leading to confrontation in Kashmir.

These groups have outlived their usefulness. They were once used by the security services as proxies but their time has now come and gone.
They are now loose cannons
The only purpose they are serving now is to give the Indians an excuse to deflect from the indigenous freedom struggle. In other words they are doing more harm than good. Once these groups cease to exist, the world will see the Kashmir struggle for what it is, a freedom movement. It will stop the Indians applying the terrorist label to it.
The sooner this fox is shot, the better.
It is long overdue.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

These groups have outlived their usefulness. They were once used by the security services as proxies but their time has now come and gone.
They are now loose cannons
The only purpose they are serving now is to give the Indians an excuse to deflect from the indigenous freedom struggle. In other words they are doing more harm than good. Once these groups cease to exist, the world will see the Kashmir struggle for what it is, a freedom movement. It will stop the Indians applying the terrorist label to it.
The sooner this fox is shot, the better.
It is long overdue.

As long as we don't wholesale ship prisoners to India, US, or anyone, I think it will be positive.

We need to rely on the rule of law for judging these groups and personalities, and not hearsay from Indian or Western media.

Rehabilitation, normalization, and incentives are necessary as well.

 

[bluesky]

Pakistan seizes 182 madrasas in crackdown on militants
Published: March 07, 2019 18:49:44

Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants on Thursday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious schools (madrasas) and detained more than 100 people as part of its push against banned groups.

This is Pakistan’s biggest move against banned organisations in years and appears to be targeting Islamic welfare organisations that the United States says are a front for militant activities, reports reuters.

Pakistan is facing pressure from global powers to act against groups carrying out attacks in India, including Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which claimed responsibility for the Feb 14 attack that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police.

The escalating tension in the wake of the bombing led to a major confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals, with both countries carrying out aerial bombing missions and even engaging in a brief dogfight that prompted fears of a war.

Pakistani officials say the crackdown is part of a long-planned drive and not a response to Indian anger over what New Delhi calls Islamabad’s failure to rein in militant groups operating on Pakistani soil.

Previous large-scale crackdowns against anti-India militants have broadly been cosmetic, with the proscribed groups able to survive and continue operations.

The interior ministry said law enforcement agencies had placed 121 people in “preventive detention” as part of the crackdown that began this week.

“Provincial governments have taken in their control management and administration of 182 seminaries”, the ministry said in a statement, referring to religious schools.

What to do with madrasas is a thorny issue in Pakistan, a deeply conservative Muslim nation where religious schools are often blamed for radicalisation of youngsters but are the only education available to millions of poor children.

The interior ministry said other institutions from different groups had been taken over, including 34 schools or colleges, 163 dispensaries, 184 ambulances, five hospitals and eight offices of banned organisations.

Many banned groups such as JeM run seminaries, which counter-terrorism officials say are used as recruiting grounds for militant outfits

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which operates hospitals and a fleet of ambulances, is estimated to run about 300 madrasas across the country. Pakistan’s government banned the group this week.

JuD calls itself a humanitarian charity but the US State Department has designated it a “foreign terrorist organisation” and calls it a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group accused of orchestrating attacks in India, including the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.

JuD called the crackdown unfair and said it would seek to counter the government action in courts.

“The whole nation is asking that what message the government wants to send by sealing welfare organisations and kicking students out,” said JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid.

Pakistan has long used Islamist groups to pursue its aims in the region, but it has denied New Delhi’s accusations it actively supports militants fighting Indian forces in India’s part of Muslim-majority Kashmir.

The South Asian neighbours have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir which they both claim in whole but rule in part.

https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/...madrasas-in-crackdown-on-militants-1551962984