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...They know people are dying, they know the severity of the illness and they have to work without PPE,” said Shoaib Hasan Tarar, a doctor working in Rawalpindi....
...“Across Pakistan there is a feeling that he has delivered on counter-terrorism and people are experiencing a drop in the level of violence,” says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a commentator on politics and military...
...In the past you have had students from Karachi University [a mainstream state funded university] go for jihad....
...Hamed Hasan, Syria‘s ambassador to Tehran, reinforced this message, telling the conference that “vicious plans” had been drafted by the US and other western states, as well as some regional countries, to...
...policy shift on the appeasement of extremists that is supported by the military, the judiciary and the political class, the edifice of the state is in danger of crumbling irretrievably,” wrote Ali Dayan Hasan...
...A lot hinges on whether we think of Maj Hasan as a mental case or a soldier of jihad. Maj Hasan had been radicalised in the name of Islam as he understood it....
...“The appeal of jihad is diminishing, the ideology has less traction in the Muslim world, the ideologues have recanted....
...However, Pakistani analysts such as Hasan-Askari Rizvi point out the restraints on acting to curb groups such as LeT....
...“Pakistan has nurtured these militants over a long period of time, all in the name of promoting the ‘jihad’ [holy war]....
...“This is not jihad. It is absolutely against our Islam to kill anyone, these terrorist are only stupid,” said Sabir Nirbany, of the Ezad Academy....
...The founding values of the original Muslim homeland were overtaken swiftly in the 1970s by an Islamic Republic that promoted militant groups dedicated to the “jihad”, or holy war, and later developed nuclear...
...“He said he was in the last stages of jihad,” says his brother, Asad, an intense young man who asks if I am a Muslim and sighs when he hears my reply....
...But members of Pakistan’s pro-jihad lobby will not be put off easily....
...“The problem is that the Pakistani military has had long-term links with groups committed to jihad....
...“The Pakistani military has used these elements for waging its own jihad in Afghanistan and [Indian-administered] Kashmir in the past....
...“The Pakistani military has used these elements for waging its own jihad [holy war] in Afghanistan and [Indian administered] Kashmir....
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