GLOBAL TERROR The making of a jihadist group
GLOBAL TERROR The making of a jihadist group To expand its geopolitical interest Pakistan’s most dangerous outfit is the Lashkar , points out a writer Stanly Johny. The world woke up to the dangers posed by the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) only after 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai that kill more than 160 people, including foreigners. Though the group was recognised as foreign terrorist organisation by the U.S. Government in December 2001, the U.S. saw that it largely as India’s problem. The Mumbai attack changed that approach. There was a pile up of literature of LeT, and U.S. started putting more pressure on Pakistan to take action against the group. But despite the efforts, the LeT’s operation were largely unaffected. C. Christine Fair explains in her book, In Their Own World: Understanding Laskar-e-Tayyaba , why and how the group survived the global anti-terror campaign. Pakistan’s designs Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University, U.S., tells the st...