Irfan Baloch
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Looking at the denial that your PoV came against, I like your way of bringing back the focus and the very pertinent question. Will the Lashkars be now disavowed or are they still "our boys" for the army who created them to ensure their petty political gains within the Pakistani society.
whether Laskher Toyaba will be disowned or owned is debatable, claim vs. counter claim
us disowning them has had some blow back indeed
but please note Luskher Jhangvi is different entity. it has had no role or no interest in militancy in Kashmir, its sole focus is the elimination of Shias. they have only gone to Afghanistan not to fight soviets or Americans but to kill shias. just check out the translations provided by their disclaimers.
just because their organisation name starts with the word Luskher and you guys jump on it. LeJ and Sippah sahabah have become more daring in the recent decade only because of the chaos of the War on terror and now are far more ambitious like TTP and wont settle at killing shias only but would like to turn Pakistan into a Deobandi Caliphate like once Afghanistan was under Mullah Omar. LeJ were never our boys but they are actually far more your boys by destroying our strategic assets like surveillance planes that have no role in war on terror.
we have been never in confrontation with Iran never overtly or covertly, our armies have ties and training programs together.
so raising sectarian terrorists to fight Iran by the army is very far fetched claim with only an amusing value to cause some pointless arguments.
for the nth time, army has devout shia officers at every rank and such policy will be self defeating I dont plan to repeat myself anymore because I see this same argument being recycled over and over again.
army reflects the population so if there has been sympathy for sectarian organisations then it was at individual level not as a matter of policy. apart from Gen hamid gul of ISI who can you name as sympathiser of sectarian organisations? Zia?
big NO.. he used Islam as a tool to prolong his rule and fight Soviets but thats where this relation stopped. he had no plan to turn Pakistan into what it has become. his untimely death/ assassination played havoc otherwise I am positive he would have neutralised them long time ago just look at KSA, they are blamed for funding of Islamic insurgency but they got a clean house. and actually the crown itself is against Al Qaeda.