Friday, July 28, 2023

Ghazwa, but not in India.

"The forceful message conveyed to Kabul by the Corps Commanders Conference...captures the disappointment within the top brass over Afghanistan's unwillingness to stop the flow of militants across Pakistan's western border." Dawn. This followed an attack on a Pakistani army base by the Taliban on 12 July. "Pakistan's army said...it lost 12 soldiers in suspected militant attacks, including an assault on one of its bases. Nine soldiers were killed at the base which the Islamist militants stormed into armed with guns, hand grenades and rockets, the army and security officials said." Reuters. "A newly founded jihadist group called Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP) claimed responsibility for the assault." A Jihad against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (encyclopedia) is deliciously ironic indeed. Pakistan has been using the bloodthirsty notion of Ghazwa-e-Hind, which means conquering and converting the whole of India to an Islamic nation by force. wiktionary. "Ghazwa in Arabic implies a war that is guided by faith rather than materialistic or territorial gains and is widely attributed to an Islamic concept derived from the Hadiths - a set of sayings by Prophet Mohammad. The phrase is used to refer to Muslim warriors conquering the Indian subcontinent." ORF. Killing of 12 Pakistani soldiers is still less than the 17 Indian soldiers killed at Uri on 18 September 2016. "Militants have attacked an army base in Indian administered Kashmir, killing at least 17 soldiers, the army says. All four of the attackers were killed. Carrying guns and grenades they stormed a base in Uri, close to the Line of Control with Pakistan in a pre-dawn ambush." BBC. "Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is an alliance of militant networks formed in 2007 to unify opposition against the Pakistani military." dni.gov. "TTP leaders also publicly say that the group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani government." That would mean the Taliban in control of nuclear weapons. "The Taliban were largely founded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) beginning in 1994; the ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain strategic depth." wikipedia. The depth of stupidity is infinite. The other stupid country is Pakistan's old friend the United States, which, in its panicked flight from Afghanistan in August 2021, CNN, left behind $7 billion worth of advanced weapons including aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communication equipment and other materials. CNN. "Terrorists operating in the Kashmir valley have started using steel core bullets and Canadian night sights that were left behind by the American-led NATO alliance." India Today. "It is no secret that following the hurried withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban scavenged all the hardware left behind by their erstwhile foes and put it to use." Dawn. "They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind". This was written before Ghazwa. 

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