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*** 17-Jul-18 World View -- Pakistan terrorism grows as July 25 election approaches

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Second largest terror attack in Pakistan's history occurs at election rally
  • 'Ghazi Force' takes credit for attack on 11th anniversary of Red Mosque siege

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**** Second largest terror attack in Pakistan's history occurs at election rally
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Facebook picture of Siraj Raisani, Baloch leader who was killed in terrorist attack on Friday

About 149 people were killed, including nine children, and hundreds
injured at a terror attack on Friday in Mastung, near Quetta, the
capital of the Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan. This was
the second worst terror attack in Pakistan's history, and it occurs as
a nationwide general election approaches on July 25.

The attack targeted an election rally for the Balochistan Awami Party
(BAP). Among the 149 killed were the BAP candidate and Baloch leader
Siraj Raisani.

The worst occurred in 2014, when Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP, Pakistan
Taliban) attacked an army school in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan on
Tuesday, killing 141 people, 132 of them schoolchildren, most of them
children of soldiers. ( "17-Dec-14 World View -- Pakistan Taliban crosses a red line with mass slaughter of army children"
) The 2014 attack was
such a shock to Pakistan, especially to the army, that the army
immediately began a long-term counter-terrorism operation directed at
TTP.

The new attack may not have the same effect of shock as the 2014
attack, because of a confluence of events. In the hours after the
suicide attack occurred on Friday, the country was riveted by a scene
going on at the other end of the country -- the return of the
charismatic former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from self-imposed exile
in London. Beginning in 1990, Sharif has been prime minister of
Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. But Sharif was charged with
corruption early in 2017 because of revelations in the leaked Panama
Papers, and he left the country after being forced to step down by the
Pakistani Supreme Court. Sharif had been promising to return to
Pakistan to defend himself against the charges, and on Friday his
plane landed and, in the midst of crowds of thousands of supporters,
he was arrested and taken off to jail.

So with all that going on, the terror attack in Balochistan didn't get
much media coverage, and so there wasn't the level of public outrage
and shock that had followed the 2014 terror attack. This is all the
more surprising because there were two more terror attacks last week.
On Tuesday, a suicide bombing in Peshawar at a rally for the Awami
National Party (ANP) killed 21, including candidate Haroon Bilour. On
Friday, a bomb roadside bomb killed four people in the northern town
of Bannu.

Terrorist violence in Pakistan has ebbed since the military began
counter-terrorism operations against the TTP after the 2014 attack.
However, with three attacks in the last week alone, and with the
election less than two weeks again, Pakistanis are concerned about a
new surge in violence. Dawn (Pakistan) and South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP - India) and Express Tribune (Pakistan) and BBC
and Indian Express

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**** 'Ghazi Force' takes credit for attack on 11th anniversary of Red Mosque siege
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The terror group "Ghazi Force Lal Masjid," linked to Tehrik-e-Taliban
(TTP, Pakistan Taliban) claimed credit for the attack. This
represents a resurgence of a group linked to a major event that
occurred almost exactly eleven years ago.

On July 11, 2007, a spectacular 8-day siege ended after 36 hours in a
mosque complex in Islamabad known as the "Red Mosque" or "Lal Masjid."
It had all begun the previous January, when dozens of female seminary
students studying and living at the madrassas within the mosque
complex demanded that the government impose Taliban-style sharia law
and arrest the prostitutes in downtown Islamabad. After a while, the
female students would come out in black burqas with long bamboo sticks
and threaten the prostitutes.

The last straw came when dozens of students kidnapped nine people,
including six Chinese women and a Chinese man, leading to protests
from China. The result was the siege and bloodbath that ended on July
11. It turned out that the Red Mosque had a huge cache of weapons
that apparently had been brought there is the last few months.

The leading cleric for the Red Mosque was Imam Abdul Rashid Ghazi who
called for his own death to spark an Islamic revolution. He said that
he would rather be martyred than give in to the government, and he was
killed during the siege. Ghazi said that he had declared war against
Pakistan's government for entering into an alliance with the United
States following the 9/11 attacks. The standoff left more than 100
militants dead, along with 11 armed forces personnel. It was a
significant turning point in terrorism in Pakistan.

Al-Qaeda leaders quickly demanded revenge, and Ghazi's death has
become a global inspiration to other jihadist movements. Six months
later, on December 14, 2007, some 40 militant leaders, commanding
40,000 militant fighters, gathered in South Waziristan to form a
united front under the banner of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Now, on the tenth anniversary of the Red Mosque siege, the Ghazi Force
Lal Masjid has struck again. Dawn (9-July-2017) and Khaama News (Afghanistan)

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Mastung, Quetta, Balochistan,
Balochistan Awami Party, BAP, Siraj Raisani,
Tehrik-e-Taliban, TTP, Pakistan Taliban, Peshawar,
Nawaz Sharif, Awami National Party, ANP, Haroon Bilour, Bannu,
Ghazi Force Lal Masjid, Lal Masjid, Red Mosque,
Abdul Rashid Ghazi

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