CLUB OF DOOM : SYRIA, BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN.

PAKISTAN FACES SURGE IN MILITANT ACTIVITY, SECTARIAN CLASHES, AND CONTINUED POLITICAL CRISIS

• Bottom Line Up Front:
• volatile and multifaceted security crisis
• militant attacks, sectarian clashes, and political violence.
• 2024, steep increase in violent attacks, 856 incidents 
• attacks from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).
• sectarian violence in late November 
• gunmen opened fire on 200 Shia passengers in Kurram, killing 52.
• convergence of militant violence, sectarian strife, political instability
• majority of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. 
• TTP operates from Afghanistan, launch cross-border attacks into Pakistan
• received support from Afghan Taliban 
• weapons left behind by U.S. provided by Afghan Taliban to TTP
• TTP’s main demand expel Pakistan Army from FATA tribal areas
• Balochistan hotbed of violent militarism
• Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) responsible for high-profile attacks 
• November attack train station in Quetta, 26 killed 
• August 35 civilians and 14 security personnel killed by BLA, in six attacks
• BLA seeks full independence of Balochistan

 

My Comments : I have a friend who is a money changer. He says 'Pakistan is a really 'sick country'. Because their currency has almost no value. The money changers do not want to change the Pakistani rupee because its value keeps dropping to the floor. Just when you thought their currency has dropped, it drops even more. Now we have thousands of Pakistani labourers coming to work here. They messed up their country. Now they are here. Malaysia banyak bagus. Bayar sikit-sikit, itu signboard bahasa Bangla, Nepal, bahasa Myanmar pun boleh.

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.

By Syed Akbar Ali