The ISI conducts its armed operations through the terrorist organisations based within and outside the country that it has raised, sponsored and funded. The Jamaat-ul-Dawa and its terror affiliate, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), the Sunni strike forces, Sipahe-Sahaba, the Afghani Taliban, anti–U.S. warlords and the Haqqani network besides many others, work under the directions of the ISI and are being trained by the Pakistan army as elite commando groups. ISI links with al-Qaeda have been now well established and are well known, but that does not seem to bother either the ISI or the army. The Pakistan army still believes that all these terror organisations are part of its strategic assets to be employed against India, Afghanistan and the U.S. forces operating in the Af-Pak region. The Pakistan army seems oblivious of the fact that its terror-based policies are wrecking its own country and ruining its economy. Some of those groups it raised to execute its covert agendas have turned against it; they now attack various military establishments. The main target of the ISI and the Pakistan military is India, and it has been attacking various targets here and in Afghanistan. Besides helping terrorists infiltrate Indian Kashmir, it is employing its terror outfits to attack sensitive targets in other parts of India periodically. The Pakistan army and the ISI are likely to continue this game, and it is not possible to see peace returning to the region unless these two instruments of Pakistani power are brought under the control of a civilian government, which is most unlikely in the prevailing situation in Pakistan. Pakistan has been trying to bleed India through “a thousand cuts,” as advocated by Bhutto and later adopted by the Pakistani army. The common people and economic establishments in India have been regularly targeted by Pakistan-based terrorist groups with the active connivance of the ISI. Now, the jihadi terrorist groups may no longer be sponsored or launched from Pakistani soil, but attack by these will continue to be orchestrated by the ISI. Its policy to conduct a proxy war against India in Kashmir and the other means of bleeding India by a thousand cuts have proved a failure, and Pakistan has instead landed into an economic and political mess. It is now a target of domestic terrorism of its own creation. These domestic groups are now busy damaging, degrading and destroying economic and power centres within their own country.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:58:44 +0000
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