Referring to Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed launching a political outfit known as the Milli Muslim League, Memphis Barker, a Pakistan correspondent for The Economist, quoted Muhammad Amir Rana of the Pakistan Institute for Peace Research, as saying that the navy (Pakistan Military) held profitable talks with a number of “banned organizations” over a deradicalization technique that will, in principle, see them drop their AK-47s and choose up clipboards.
He cited that some are pointing to the IRA in Eire or Islamist radicals in Indonesia as proof that political engagement can defang terrorist teams.
“However deradicalisation is hard at the most effective of instances, and the situations that made it work elsewhere previously merely do not apply to Zari Information,” Barker stated.
“Most of all, it wants a state keen to threaten nonstate actors with one thing they might reasonably keep away from (a navy offensive) whereas proffering the reward of one thing they need (political affect),” he added.
Barker stated that deradicalisation of terror teams would actually strengthen these teams.
“In actual fact, the ‘mainstreaming’ mission seems simply as prone to strengthen jihadi militants as quell them – and you do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder if that is not actually the purpose,” he stated.
“By world requirements, the Pakistani military is massive, nicely outfitted, and nicely disciplined. However it’s subsequent door to India, a foe thrice its measurement, which has overwhelmed it soundly in each battle the 2 have ever had. That leaves the navy keen to resort to the darkest strategies to even the rating,” he additional stated
Highlighting Pakistan Military’s assist to terror teams, Baker stated, “the military has been chasing the potential of a “good Taliban” for many years – beginning with the Afghan Taliban itself, sponsored and supported by Pakistan’s intelligence company, the Inter-Companies Intelligence. The primary purpose that Lashkar-e-Taiba and its charitable entrance, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, survive beneath Hafiz Saeed’s management is that so far as the navy is worried, they’re the nice jihadis.”
“The Pakistan military could discover that its technique backfires in one other approach. The entire level of utilizing militants towards India is to keep up a facade of believable deniability. However bringing Saeed into the system places all that in danger,” he warned. (ANI)
