mAkE a DiFFerEnCe !

Why do they do it?

It’s something I fail to understand. Miserably. Months and months of impeccable planning, high level risks managed with perfection, greasing the officials hands for smoother and “un-noticed” movements; all of this- for brutally killing citizens? Ordinary men and women from all walks of life, cheerfully entertaining themselves with their folk; who never realized that this was their last performance… ambitious students with grand plans for their career, families and societies, which are just left as grand plans, the being no more.

Who is to be blamed?

The overwhelming absence of knowledge made me read a bit about the terrorist organizations, and the results were horrifying. Apparently, Pakistan is house to some of the most well planned terrorist organizations such as the Lashkar–E-Toiba, MQMA, etc to name a few. Curiosity getting the better of me, I decided to find out more about LeT. Also known as “Jama’at-ud-Da’awa” the LeT, founded in 1990, is currently based in Muridke, 30 kms from Lahore, Pakistan in an area which spans across 200 acres. The organization, obviously banned by nations such as US, Britain and India, maintains a goal of making India as a nation under the rule of Islam. Furthermore, it seeks to convert all countries surrounding Pakistan to be Islamic, and to this goal it remains highly active in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, Chechnya and some central Asian nations.

Hafiz Saeed, a “scholar” in Islam is of the belief that Jihad is their weapon to realize the dominance of Islam over the entire world, and to eradicate the evil forces and the ignorant. I believe that by evil forces, he means the Democratic and Socialist nations; whereas the ignorant would count up to the non-Muslim folks, innocent and ignorant as they clearly are to the power of Jihad.

Now for some more interesting facts- The LeT has strength of around 750 “cadres”. Primary funding of the training, arms and ammunition, operations and running of the organization is managed by the ISI. Who is ISI? Inter Services Intelligence is the external intelligence agency of the Pakistani Government, whose chief goal is to safe guard Pakistani interests and national security inside and outside of Pakistan. Please note my point regarding who ISI is. And now for the strangest fact ever: the military regime of President Pervez General Musharraf banned the LeT in Pakistan on 12^th January, 2002.

I now leave the rest for you to ponder upon. First, if Mr. Musharraf’s military regime did ban the organization, precisely what does he mean by the word “ban”?

Additionally, if the government bans a certain organization, then why does an external agency that is primarily connected to the same government, finance this organization?

Unfortunately for us, these religious fanatics can have things their way, inspite of the odds and ends. And it is we, the common citizens, who usually face the grime of their operations by losing our near and dear ones. I have a question here for the so-called scholar, Mr. Hafiz Saeed. Are your bombs and bullets so advanced, that they can detect the evil forces and the ignorant from the religious Muslims? Do you claim that you have never, during all your attacks, affected even a single innocent Muslim? And considering that we go by your way, what next? Hmm? What after the whole world becomes an Islamic ruled planet? What next? Mr. Hafiz, are you listening?

(References used from Wikipedia (ISI) and the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP).