by Taha Siddiqui
alleged that because of the back upward of the safety apparatus for the group, no solid activity has been taken against LeT. And at that topographic point is real niggling the civilian authorities tin lav do, fifty-fifty if they desire to accept activity against the group.
The one-time caput of the Federal Investigation Authority of Pakistan, Tariq Khosa, wrote inwards 2015 that fifty-fifty though his way had uncovered plenty evidence to bear witness the LeT was behind the Bombay attacks, the courts had failed to convict anyone for the crime.
Politicians who withdraw maintain tried to force for the scheme to live held accountable withdraw maintain gotten inwards trouble. After Pakistan's one-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lasted 4 days as well as left over 160 people dead. In the subsequent investigations, Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi as well as Hafiz Saeed, ii leaders of Pakistan-based armed grouping alleged that because of the back upward of the safety apparatus for the group, no solid activity has been taken against LeT. And at that topographic point is real niggling the civilian authorities tin lav do, fifty-fifty if they desire to accept activity against the group.
The one-time caput of the Federal Investigation Authority of Pakistan, Tariq Khosa, wrote inwards 2015 that fifty-fifty though his way had uncovered plenty evidence to bear witness the LeT was behind the Bombay attacks, the courts had failed to convict anyone for the crime.
Politicians who withdraw maintain tried to force for the scheme to live held accountable withdraw maintain gotten inwards trouble. After Pakistan's one-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were named every bit the suspected masterminds of the attack.
In Dec 2008, the Pakistani authorities arrested Lakhvi as well as kept him behind bars until 2015, when a local courtalleged that because of the back upward of the safety apparatus for the group, no solid activity has been taken against LeT. And at that topographic point is real niggling the civilian authorities tin lav do, fifty-fifty if they desire to accept activity against the group.
The one-time caput of the Federal Investigation Authority of Pakistan, Tariq Khosa, wrote inwards 2015 that fifty-fifty though his way had uncovered plenty evidence to bear witness the LeT was behind the Bombay attacks, the courts had failed to convict anyone for the crime.
Politicians who withdraw maintain tried to force for the scheme to live held accountable withdraw maintain gotten inwards trouble. After Pakistan's one-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif released him on bail due to "insufficient evidence" provided against him.
Saeed was seat nether solid arrest next the Bombay attacks but was ready costless inwards 2009. In 2012, the U.S.A. announced a $10m vantage for whatsoever data that leads to his capture.
Over the past times decade as well as a half, LeT has gone through diverse transformations every bit it came nether international as well as domestic pressure. Organisations affiliated amongst LeT include Jamat-ud-Dawa, Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation as well as Tehreek-e-Azadi Jammu as well as Kashmir - all led past times Saeed.
Despite all these mention changes, the heart as well as mortal of the LeT is real much live as well as its activities extend across the country. So 10 years subsequently the Bombay attacks, why is Islamic Republic of Pakistan all the same unable to incorporate the movement?
Secret ties
Many believe the hole-and-corner human relationship betwixt the Pakistani intelligence as well as the LeT - which was alleged that because of the back upward of the safety apparatus for the group, no solid activity has been taken against LeT. And at that topographic point is real niggling the civilian authorities tin lav do, fifty-fifty if they desire to accept activity against the group.
The one-time caput of the Federal Investigation Authority of Pakistan, Tariq Khosa, wrote inwards 2015 that fifty-fifty though his way had uncovered plenty evidence to bear witness the LeT was behind the Bombay attacks, the courts had failed to convict anyone for the crime.
Politicians who withdraw maintain tried to force for the scheme to live held accountable withdraw maintain gotten inwards trouble. After Pakistan's one-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif implied that the LeT was behind the Bombay attacks inwards an interview amongst local paper Dawn before this year, a Pakistani courtroom initiated a treason example against him as well as the journalist who published the interview for defaming national institutions.
While those who enquiry the group's actions as well as powerfulness to operate amongst impunity are existence harassed, the LeT continues to expand its footprint inwards the province nether different guises, using charity organisations every bit fronts.
One such front, Jamat-ud-Dawa late launched a political political party called Milli Muslim League, allegedly every bit role of a state of war machine innovation to push such groups into mainstream politics.
The political party has non secured official registration amongst the Election Commission of Pakistan, but it openly backed candidates that contested the July full general elections as well as performed much ameliorate than traditional political parties inwards to a greater extent than or less areas of the province - such every bit inwards Lahore where Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoub secured to a greater extent than votes than the Islamic Republic of Pakistan People's Party candidate Zubair Kardar. So how did the LeT grapple to arrive at the trust of as well as then many Pakistani citizens?
LeT recruitment amid Pakistan's poor
The tacit back upward LeT receives from the powerful military, which inwards many ways runs a "parallel government" inwards Pakistan, allows the scheme to operate freely inwards all corners of the country. The grouping focuses its efforts on areas where vulnerable Pakistanis are looking for assistance amongst subsistence.
I withdraw maintain followed the grouping closely during my reporting missions inwards the country, as well as withdraw maintain seen how they run an expansive network of charity organisations. While this is a forepart that they exercise to justify their continued presence, it is too a way to win hearts as well as minds of Pakistanis, who they recruit for their political causes.
I saw this happening multiple times, especially inwards the aftermath of natural disasters. The Pakistani province lacks the infrastructure to assistance its population inwards the aftermath of such disasters as well as it appears to withdraw maintain outsourced this role to such "charity" groups.
During a reporting trip to due south of Punjab province next a overflowing inwards 2014, I witnessed members of the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation helping out the affected population past times bringing them nutrient as well as providing them amongst shelter. When I asked 1 of them nearly their motives, he told me that their primary aim was "to abide by novel recruits for their movement".
It is unlikely that the Pakistani authorities, as well as especially the military, are unaware of LeT's recruitment activities amid the poor. But the grouping is perceived to live focused on "external enemies" - i.e. to live practising its militancy elsewhere - as well as thus to pose no immediate threat to Pakistan.
This is why the LeT is allowed to operate freely to this day. And this is why nosotros are yet to run across whatsoever concrete activity taken against those who are known to live masterminds of the Bombay attack.
But this policy of allowing "outward-looking" militancy to proceed to be mightiness shortly backfire. In recent times, many one-time LeT operatives withdraw maintain joined other armed groups, such every bit the Islamic State of Republic of Iraq as well as the Levant (ISIL), that consider Islamic Republic of Pakistan an enemy as well as comport out attacks on Pakistani ground against the Pakistani population.
Furthermore, nosotros cannot perchance await that instability as well as militancy inwards neighbouring countries volition non eventually cross dorsum into our territory as well as impact us every bit well.
A decade subsequently the Bombay attacks, it actually is fourth dimension for Islamic Republic of Pakistan to alter its policies as well as halt allowing loathe groups to prosper inside its borders. If it fails to accept action, the likes of the LeT volition proceed to radicalise the Pakistani youth, force them towards violence as well as eventually terms the Pakistani lodge itself.
The views expressed inwards this article are the author's ain as well as produce non necessarily reverberate Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
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