Pakistani Terrorism

Pakistani militant groups are killing civilians and engaging in terrorism in around the world under the guise of holy war. The government in Islamabad supports these militants and their religious schools as cheap ways to fight India and educate Pakistan's youth. But this policy is creating a culture of violence that exacerbates internal sectarianism and destabilizes the region. Without change, this monster threatens not only pakistan but the entire world.
Media:http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20001101faessay940/jessica-stern/pakistan-s-jihad-culture.html
With al Qaeda now permanently headquartered in Pakistan, it's not hard to imagine the organization and its Arab Sunni core being absorbed by a group like Lashkar. Britain's domestic intelligence service, MI5, which is America's best frontline defense against Pakistani jihadists who carry British passports--and tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis, at home and abroad, carry such passports, which make travel to the United States easy--gives the impression that we may have already reached the absorption point. These Pakistani jihadist groups are larger than al Qaeda ever was, and their size is a distinct intelligence vulnerability, especially if the Pakistani intelligence agency is ever willing to move aggressively against them and the larger religious movements that they feed on.
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/pakistans-jihad.html
The idea for the September 11 plot came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented the idea to Osama bin Laden in 1996.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested on March 1, 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Ahmed Mohammad Ajaj also transliterated was convicted of participating in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is currently serving a 115-year sentence in the ADX Florence supermax prison in Florence, Colorado for his role in the bombing.
Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24, 1999, shortly after the aircraft entered Indian airspace at about 5:30 p.m. Indian Standard Time by five Pakistani nationals. They are Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar, Sayed Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, Shakir. Ultimately, the plane landed in Afghanistan, where the hijackers agreed to release their hostages in exchange for the release of three pakistani extremists. The hijackers of pakistani origin are Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar, Sayed Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, Shakir.
The Akshardham Temple attack or Akshardham Temple siege occurred on September 25, 2002 when two heavily armed pakistani terrorists arrived at the Akshardham Monument in Gandhinagar, the capital of Western Gujarat state in India.29 devotees were killed and another 79 devotees wounded.
Waheed Zaman of pakistan is one of the terrorist arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.
Mohammed Junaid Babar is a Pakistani-American who, after pleading guilty to terrorist related offences in New York, testified in March 2006 against a group of men accused of plotting bomb attacks in London
Faheem Khalid Lodhi also know as Abu Hamza is a Pakistani-Australian architect and the first convicted Australian terrorist under new legislation enacted in 2005.

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