{"id":1985,"date":"2009-11-25T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2016-05-12T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:04:54","slug":"leading-pakistani-islamist-organizing-popular-movement-against-south-waziristan-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Leading Pakistani Islamist Organizing Popular Movement against South Waziristan Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew McGregor<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 25 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Pakistani Army pushes deeper into South Waziristan, a vocal political challenge to Islamabad\u2019s cooperation in the War on Terrorism has emerged in the form of Syed Munawar Hasan, the Amir (leader) of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI)\u2014the leading party in the religious coalition that rules Pakistan\u2019s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)\u2014and\u00a0 a member of the ruling coalition in Balochistan Province.<\/p>\n

\"Syed<\/a>Syed Munawar Hasan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Syed Munawar was a student of JI founder Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), one of the leading theorists of political Islam. A member of JI-Pakistan since 1967 and the party\u2019s Secretary General since 1993, Syed Munawar has begun a very public campaign to rally support among Pakistan\u2019s conservative religious community against the U.S. role in the region and Islamabad\u2019s offensive against Taliban extremists in South Waziristan. He is also calling for a diplomatic campaign against India for its alleged role in terrorist activities within Pakistan.<\/p>\n

In recent well-publicized rallies and Friday sermons, Syed Munawar has issued a series of provocative statements and demands. According to the JI\u2019s Amir:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pakistan should sever all ties with India and begin a diplomatic campaign against the country at the United Nations in response to the discovery of Indian arms in South Waziristan and Balochistan. The government has failed to do this because India is backed by the United States. Indian Hindus are organizing atrocities against India\u2019s Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Buddhist communities (Jasarat<\/em> [Karachi], November 15; The News<\/em> [Islamabad], November 14). JI is organizing \u201cblack days\u201d of protest against India in mid-December.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Muslim Kashmiris have been waging a struggle for freedom from India for 62 years. India has responded by sending a 700,000 man \u201carmy of savages\u201d (Jasarat<\/em> [Karachi], November 15). Though JI claims it is dedicated to a peaceful and democratic process, the exception is Kashmir, in which case the movement actively supports armed groups fighting Indian rule.<\/p>\n

\u2022 State terrorism is the real form of terrorism due to the massive firepower available to modern states. Millions of people have died in the \u201cunprecedented\u201d destruction caused by state terrorism (Jasarat [Karachi], November 15)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The United States is seeking to create a \u201cmini-Pentagon\u201d in Islamabad by expanding its embassy there. Islamabad is \u201cunder the occupation of Blackwater [renamed Xe Services LLC in February]\u201d and Washington is pushing for an expansion of the counter-insurgency operations to North Waziristan. The ongoing drone attacks on insurgent leaders are an assault on the sovereignty of Pakistan but come as part of a campaign to change the borders of Pakistan (The News<\/em> [Islamabad], November 19). Syed Munawar called on Army Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to write a letter to President Barack Obama demanding a halt to the drone attacks (The Nation [Lahore], November 20).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The October attack on the Army\u2019s GHQ in Rawalpindi was not the work of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (as the movement claimed in an October 12 TTP statement), but was instead the work of the United States and India. \u201cI am not ready to believe that the Taliban are so powerful that they would dare attack the GHQ\u201d (Dawn<\/em> [Karachi], October 12; The News<\/em> [Islamabad], November 19).He identified \u201cthe secret terrorist force, Blackwater\u201d and India\u2019s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW \u2013 India\u2019s external intelligence agency) as the perpetrators (The Nation<\/em>, November 20; Jasarat<\/em>, November 12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew McGregor November 25 2009 As the Pakistani Army pushes deeper into South Waziristan, a vocal political challenge to Islamabad\u2019s cooperation in the War on Terrorism has emerged in the form of Syed Munawar Hasan, the Amir (leader) of Jamaat-e-Islami … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-waziristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberfoylesecurity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}