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Rawalpindi attack: Concern over JeM-Taliban partnership | Friday’s gruesome suicide attack on a mosque in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, in which about 40 people were killed, including two military generals, has raised concerns about terror groups such as the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) joining hands with the Taliban.
The attack on a mosque has worried officials and analysts, who believe that this
new terror friendship could have a catastrophic effect. “The sanctity of a mosque
doesn’t matter much to Jaish-e-Mohammad (a Punjab-based militant group), given
their history of sectarian violence,” said Dr. Rifaat Hussain, a defense analyst
at Islamabad’s Quaid-e-Azam University. Dr. Hussain pointed out that Friday’s
attack, along with the attack on the Pakistani naval headquarters earlier, clearly
reflects that the extremists were determined to attack ‘secondary targets’ associated
with the security forces because they are less fortified. “The object is to weaken
the morale of the military and their families, and such attacks are likely to
become more frequent,” The Christian Science Monitor quoted, Dr. Hussain, as saying.
However, Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistan Army brigadier said that the tactics
of carrying out attacks against these ‘secondary targets’ may backfire, as each
of these attacks would only enhance the moral to counter and dismantle the terror
network. “Each successive attack has in fact served to cement the morale, we are
more determined to get rid of people from our midst who are causing this kind
of damage,” Qadir said. |
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