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Religious Militancy: A Big Challenge To Pakistan Stability - OpEd Eurasia Review
By Amna Razzaq
A big challenge that Pakistan is confronting among several other problems is increasing religious militancy and terrorism.
Militants are challenging the writ of the state and are spreading in the mainstream of the country. Terrorists are killing innocent people and targeting women, children and senior citizens of the state without any discrimination. Our society is terrorized and captioned by these militant attacks and everybody is vulnerable, people lost faith in government as the government seems ineffective in providing security to the masses. No place is safe from these terrorist attacks; our educational institutions, public places, security agencies and even mosques are becoming the victims of these militant attacks.
If we look back, we come to know that these Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants came into Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan; these militants formed alliances with local tribesmen and initiated various terrorist activities in tribal belt and now these activities are spreading in the main cities of Pakistan, posing a serious threat to Pakistan security and stability.
However, some of the reports tell that this Taliban movement was launched and initiated by youth i.e. the youngsters were taught at Pakistani madrassas that those who are violating the teachings of Islam should be killed. The religious students are prepared for so-called jihad as the leaders and management of the madrassas adopt the technique of brain washing of these teen-agers.
In the beginning, these militants were backed by the intelligence agencies of Pakistan, but post 9/11 attacks, Pakistan became a front-line ally of United States in war against terrorism and provided every kind of assistance to US in this war. Resultantly, our own tribal people gone against the government for this assistance in war against terror and they accused the government for killing of thousands of innocent pushtuns in FATA and hence that Pushtun society made alliance with Taliban and provided safe heavens to these militants. In this entire situation, we become the victim of terrorist attacks in our country.
Moreover, we have also been gifted with drone attacks in our tribal areas by US; US is exploiting our sovereignty by doing drone attacks; the US intervene our territory and launched OBL raid without our permission, this and some other likely acts such as Remand Davis case and Salala attack, are against the sovereignty of Pakistan.
Reports and news also provide evidences that international community is also supporting these so-called religious militants, which is serious challenge for Pakistan government. These religious militants are interpreting Islam in a quite different way; their teachings contradicts that of the teachings of Islam; these militants commit terrorist attacks in the name of Islam; however Islam strongly condemns the killing of innocent people, women and children, and terms the likely people as coward and cruel who target women and children. Islam teaches us the lesson of love, prosperity and peace; in contrast these militants Islam leaves a negative connotation internationally, hence leaving an impact on non-Muslims that Islam is the religion of terror and not of peace.
This religious terrorism is threatening the stability of tribal areas. The root cause of militancy involves national as well as international elements, making the current scenario more complicated and more threatening. Some evidences show that India and some other countries are backing the terrorist activities in Pakistan; side by side they also provide them with weapons and financial aid. Furthermore, our society is divided into different sects who pose a severe challenge on the part of security forces. The leaders of religious organizations and religious political parties plan killings and use the youth bulk for this purpose by motivating this innocent youth on religious passion and hence launch terrorist activities in this way.
This religious militancy is a serious challenge for the government and security agencies as the terrorists are spreading in big and settled cities of the country. What is happening in Karachi offers a good example of terrorism. There government is failed to provide security and to maintain law and order in the city.
Therefore if this militancy goes unchecked, this would be a next severe challenge for our sovereignty and integrity. The time demands us to root out the extremism and fundamentalism; otherwise to counter this challenge we would fail to safeguard our dear homeland from these terrorists.
Here I would like to put forward my recommendations;
At this stage of economic turnaround, we need to keep up the thrust of socio-economic development by effectively in order countering these militants.
All the political parties, security forces, armed forces and our intelligence agencies and establishment should come forward with effective plans and agenda to eradicate extremism from the country.
For this all the parties should come on the dialogue table and work sincerely to counter this severe challenge to stability of Pakistan.
Here I like to quote senior defence analyst of Pakistan Dr.Riffat Hussain solution to the root cause of fundamentalism and extremism in our country. The only hope of saving Pakistan from the religious extremists, the feudal tribal mafias, the corrupt bureaucrats, and the various types of opportunists and fortune-hunters is the emergence of an educated group of persons who understand Islam to be a religion of justice and compassion, of knowledge and reason, of openness and peace.
Hence to take out our country from this challenge, we all have support our forces against these militants so as to make our country a prosperous and safe one.
Religious Militancy: A Big Challenge To Pakistan Stability - OpEd Eurasia Review
By Amna Razzaq
A big challenge that Pakistan is confronting among several other problems is increasing religious militancy and terrorism.
Militants are challenging the writ of the state and are spreading in the mainstream of the country. Terrorists are killing innocent people and targeting women, children and senior citizens of the state without any discrimination. Our society is terrorized and captioned by these militant attacks and everybody is vulnerable, people lost faith in government as the government seems ineffective in providing security to the masses. No place is safe from these terrorist attacks; our educational institutions, public places, security agencies and even mosques are becoming the victims of these militant attacks.
If we look back, we come to know that these Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants came into Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan; these militants formed alliances with local tribesmen and initiated various terrorist activities in tribal belt and now these activities are spreading in the main cities of Pakistan, posing a serious threat to Pakistan security and stability.
However, some of the reports tell that this Taliban movement was launched and initiated by youth i.e. the youngsters were taught at Pakistani madrassas that those who are violating the teachings of Islam should be killed. The religious students are prepared for so-called jihad as the leaders and management of the madrassas adopt the technique of brain washing of these teen-agers.
In the beginning, these militants were backed by the intelligence agencies of Pakistan, but post 9/11 attacks, Pakistan became a front-line ally of United States in war against terrorism and provided every kind of assistance to US in this war. Resultantly, our own tribal people gone against the government for this assistance in war against terror and they accused the government for killing of thousands of innocent pushtuns in FATA and hence that Pushtun society made alliance with Taliban and provided safe heavens to these militants. In this entire situation, we become the victim of terrorist attacks in our country.
Moreover, we have also been gifted with drone attacks in our tribal areas by US; US is exploiting our sovereignty by doing drone attacks; the US intervene our territory and launched OBL raid without our permission, this and some other likely acts such as Remand Davis case and Salala attack, are against the sovereignty of Pakistan.
Reports and news also provide evidences that international community is also supporting these so-called religious militants, which is serious challenge for Pakistan government. These religious militants are interpreting Islam in a quite different way; their teachings contradicts that of the teachings of Islam; these militants commit terrorist attacks in the name of Islam; however Islam strongly condemns the killing of innocent people, women and children, and terms the likely people as coward and cruel who target women and children. Islam teaches us the lesson of love, prosperity and peace; in contrast these militants Islam leaves a negative connotation internationally, hence leaving an impact on non-Muslims that Islam is the religion of terror and not of peace.
This religious terrorism is threatening the stability of tribal areas. The root cause of militancy involves national as well as international elements, making the current scenario more complicated and more threatening. Some evidences show that India and some other countries are backing the terrorist activities in Pakistan; side by side they also provide them with weapons and financial aid. Furthermore, our society is divided into different sects who pose a severe challenge on the part of security forces. The leaders of religious organizations and religious political parties plan killings and use the youth bulk for this purpose by motivating this innocent youth on religious passion and hence launch terrorist activities in this way.
This religious militancy is a serious challenge for the government and security agencies as the terrorists are spreading in big and settled cities of the country. What is happening in Karachi offers a good example of terrorism. There government is failed to provide security and to maintain law and order in the city.
Therefore if this militancy goes unchecked, this would be a next severe challenge for our sovereignty and integrity. The time demands us to root out the extremism and fundamentalism; otherwise to counter this challenge we would fail to safeguard our dear homeland from these terrorists.
Here I would like to put forward my recommendations;
At this stage of economic turnaround, we need to keep up the thrust of socio-economic development by effectively in order countering these militants.
All the political parties, security forces, armed forces and our intelligence agencies and establishment should come forward with effective plans and agenda to eradicate extremism from the country.
For this all the parties should come on the dialogue table and work sincerely to counter this severe challenge to stability of Pakistan.
Here I like to quote senior defence analyst of Pakistan Dr.Riffat Hussain solution to the root cause of fundamentalism and extremism in our country. The only hope of saving Pakistan from the religious extremists, the feudal tribal mafias, the corrupt bureaucrats, and the various types of opportunists and fortune-hunters is the emergence of an educated group of persons who understand Islam to be a religion of justice and compassion, of knowledge and reason, of openness and peace.
Hence to take out our country from this challenge, we all have support our forces against these militants so as to make our country a prosperous and safe one.