T-Faz
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you do have proof of "extremists within the ranks" part, right?
“Security agencies have been suggesting such measures from time to time in the past in view of the growing terrorism. It has happened in the past that junior officials of the Pakistan Air Force got one-year-long leave on the pretext of accompanying the preaching groups, but when they were later arrested, it transpired that they had in fact been training with different militant groups,” a senior security officer told The News on condition of anonymity.
Tableeghi Jamaats to be banned from Cantts, defence areas
“They are definitely some people suspected of involvement from within, but we’re still investigating exactly who was behind it,” he said.
“From a janitor to an officer at the base, everyone is a suspect at this point,” he said.
He said that previously there have been cases when clerics of local mosques at naval premises were found to be involved in ‘anti-state’ activities.
Navy officers suspect inside job in PNS Mehran – The Express Tribune
Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Operations Air Vice Marshal Khalid Chaudhry as saying that the airmen, most of whom came from rural villages, were being radicalised by extremist clerics.
The cable quotes Chaudhry as saying, “You can’t imagine what a hard time we have trying to get them to trim their beards.”
US fears:
Keep living in denial.