Pakistan's Stability Paradox by Ashutosh Misra Michael E. Clarke

Author:Ashutosh Misra, Michael E. Clarke [Ashutosh Misra, Michael E. Clarke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415728256
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2013-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

9/11 and its impact

9/11 forced Pakistan to change its stance on Afghanistan. It stopped its backing of the Taliban and officially joined the US-led war on terror. Musharraf, then Chief of the Pakistan Army and President of Pakistan, argued that he was compelled to do so to save Pakistan’s Kashmir policy, which also then included covert operations by jihadi militants. However, he was very soon embarrassed by the jihadi attacks on the Indian parliament in December 2001 and was forced to ban leading jihadi organizations such as LeT, HuM and JeM. Despite this, however, all of these organizations were to reappear under new names and continued their activities, although on a reduced scale. LeT renamed itself as Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), JeM called itself Tehreek-e-Khuddam-ul-Islam and HuM became Jamiat-ul-Ansar. Apart from these, there were other lesser-known offshoots of these jihadi outfits, such as 313 Brigade (led by Qari Siafullah Akhtar and a splinter group of HuJI), who continued with their jihadi activities against India.

However, under pressure from the US, Pakistan had to take some visible steps to keep a closer eye on the sources of funding, recruitment and operation of the jihadi groups. There was a feeling amongst the jihadi outfits that Pakistan might dump them and call off the ongoing jihad in Kashmir. In their frustration, they attacked Musharraf twice in November–December 2003 and also launched attacks on the Karachi corps commander, and Shaukat Aziz, the then prime minister of Pakistan. The investigations revealed the jihadi connection and shed light on the emerging fault lines within the army and the division among the jihadi forces.11

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