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NEW DELHI: The head of terrorist group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Saeed, is encouraging students from Pakistan’s prestigious University of Engineering and Technology (UET) to join Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and Khan Research Laboratories after graduation. This has led to dozens of JuD affiliated members from UET joining the country’s nuclear institutions, raising fears of nuclear weapons falling in hands of terrorists, a new book titled ‘Pakistan: Courting The Abyss’ has warned.
In his maiden book, Tilak Devasher, who retired from the cabinet secretariat and dealt extensively with India’s neighbourhood, paints a grim picture of the growth of extremist groups and their access to sophisticated technology. “LeT’s efforts to access nuclear weapons should also be noted. In his book, ‘Call for Transnational Jihad’, Arif Jamal reveals that since his days as a teacher in UET, Hafiz Saeed and co-founder of the JuD Zafar Iqbal had been encouraging their students to join the country’s nuclear science and technology institutions like PAEC and KRL after graduating from UET." Devasher has written in the chapter on terror infrastructure in Pakistan.
The book further says, “Jamal believes that dozens of JuD members from UET and other universities have joined Pakistan’s nuclear and technology institutions. It is this penetration of state institutions, including nuclear ones, that seems to have convinced the JuD that it is likely to acquire access to nuclear technology. This may come sooner than imagined given the JuD’s ability to realise its plans systematically and cool-headedly, he warns.”
UET, based in Lahore and one of the highest ranked universities in Pakistan, was founded in undivided India.
Khan Research Laboratories was founded was by infamous AQ Khan, who had helped North Korea acquire nuclear weapons and maintained links with Libya. Devasher has written in the book that “it is worth noting that Dr AQ Khan was reported to have attended the rallies of Hafiz Saeed together with other nuclear scientists like Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood, former director of PAEC and Abdul Majid”.
“The latter’s charity Umma Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) was found to be in correspondence with the LeT and papers on construction and maintenance of nuclear weapons were found on their premises. These two scientists had separately met Osama bin Laden. Speaking at a Kashmir Solidarity Day rally in Lahore on 6 February 2004, Hafiz Saeed said: ‘He (AQ Khan) shared the technology for the supremacy of Islam and he acted on Allah’s command,” the book says.
The author also takes a closer look at the role of madrasas in Pakistan in fanning extremism and jihadi culture. “Madrasas pose several challenges…10 per cent of the madrassas where anywhere between 150,000 and 300,000 students study could be potential terrorists. Even if 1 per cent of them were to become suicide bombers, there could well be around 3,000 potential suicide bombers waiting to blow themselves up.
Even if they do not blow themselves up, the limited education they have received would make them dysfunctional members of society, prone to being incited to violence,” Devasher says in the book.
The book also analyses the origin of Pakistan and the civil-military ties in the country, along with the state of education and economy besides its relations with the US, China, India and Afghanistan.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...kistan-atomic-bodies/articleshow/55949059.cms
