RADICALIZATION AND PAKISTAN

See,Pakistan has deliberately promoted radicalism and terrorism in its country as well as neighborhood as part of state policy.They embraced radicalism and terrorism as state policy in order to wage a proxy war against its enemy.Pakistan has supported radicalism of their country and nurtured so many terrorists in order to achieve its geopolitical goals.

It can be dated back immediately after 1947,Pakistan supported tribal militias in order to occupy parts in J&K as part of first proxy war against India.Than in 1960,Pakistan is known to be supported lot of India based outfits such as naxal,north east insurgents etc.

But,Pakistan first major entry in religion based proxy war was in Afghanistan in 1980.This was the period of cold war(bilateral world).This was the time when Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and occupied it.Since,this was the cold war era,USA decided to make use of this opportunity and in collaboration with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan,they created Mujaheddin,in order to challenge Soviet invasion.In this proxy war with USA,Pakistan played a key role,while money and weapon were coming from USA and Saudi Arabia.It was Pakistan which played a key role in training and arming the afghan Mujaheddin as a form of resistance against Soviet Union.

During this period Pakistan emerged as a key ally of major countries and started receiving huge sums of money as funding as well large supply of weapon.So,they started diverting part of money to wage a religion based proxy war against India by establishing lot of anti India terror outfit.Initially Pakistan experimented with supporting Khalistan movement.Later Pakistan Army and ISI played a key role in insurgency in Kashmir by establishing lot of Anti India terror outfit such as JEM,LET,HM.In order to create ready pool of recruitment for these terror outfit,Pakistan government deliberately supported the radicalization of its own society.

So,from 1970 till date,the support given by their government to radicalism has ended up in creating deep divide in their society.This has lead to rise of radical form of Islam,such as Salafism and Wahabism  and this has ended in affecting the minority community of Pakistan.This has lead to ethnic persecution in their own country such as Ahmadias,Sufis,Hazaras. 

Over the year Pakistan dependency on proxy war as its state policy and deliberately misinterpretation

of religion,in order to promote radicalization has ended up giving birth to number of terror outfit that are today targeting Pakistan state itself.

This has lead Pakistan to distinct between good terrorism and bad terrorism,the LET,HM,Haqqani network ,Taliban are considered by them as good terrorism as they have pushed them to achieve their geopolitical goals.The Taliban has made Pakistan relevant in Afghanistan and global Geo politics.So,for this reason Pakistan has not only tolerated them but also nurtured them.

\The flawed and dangerous strategy of Pakistan has also given birth to other terror outfit such as TTP(Tahreeke Taliban Pakistan) and considered by them as bad terrorism because the government has no longer been able to control them and they repeatedly target the Pakistan army ,government and minority.