My previous statement may have been poorly worded - the point I was making is not that the Indians and Afghans need to experience these attacks, but that the Taliban in Pakistan, despite reportedly being linked to the Afghan Taliban, are carrying out a far more complex, sophisticated and deadly insurgency than the Afghan Taliban.
Taliban Swatter indicated that he thought this was because some retired or serving Pak Military might be involved, and hence my pointing out that if that was the case we should have seen similar types of attacks in Afghanistan given the corruption and infiltration in the Afghan security forces.
That leaves me to 'speculate' that the Pakistani Taliban are far more deadly and capable because they are receiving state assistance (Indian intelligence is my guess) which is providing them with tactical training, intelligence on targets and operational planning.
I would agree that the Pakistani Jihadis are more capable than their Afghan counterparts, but that does not necessarily imply indian involvement.
Their enhanced capability could possibly be due to a strong collaborative relationship between the qualitatively superior punjabi militants of the LeJ, JM variety and the TTP - as we've seen, punjabi militants have been involved in most of the complex attacks carried out including the ones on the cricket team, manawan, as well as the GHQ raid.
When you couple that ground reality with the fact that a lot of the punjabi jihadis were trained by the military, have long-standing ties with lots of pro-jihadi ex military officers, and essentially form the core of the jihadi infrastructure in pakistan, the possbile reason behind the relative sophistication of the local jihadi terrorist attacks on high-profile targets becomes more evident.
LeT is probably the most advanced and well-trained jihadi outfit of the lot - JM, LeJ are perhaps a close second. I'd say the Mumbai attack was a meticulously planned operation that probably required a couple of years of planning and training. Infiltrating Mumbai's central districts, holding off army commandos for 2-3 days, and coordinating across different attack sites was no mean feat.
Now we know that the suspect charged in Chicago was interfacing with LeT, a retired military officer and Ilyas Kashmiri. IK was known to have links with TTP as well as Al Qaeda, and according to Hamid Mir, was an ex-SSG commando!
We also know that the attack team leader of the GHQ attack, Usman, was a ex-military person.
I'm afraid the nexus between the jihadi groups and retired military personnel is too obvious to ignore.
If the Indians were so sophisticated so as to set up a terrorist support network across pakistani cities with impunity, surely they would have busted the mumbai plot long before it could ever see the light of day.
At the end of the day, the recent attacks on security complexes in the major cities can only be sustained if they are propped up by a support infrastructure embedded within the various urban communities - IMHO.
And we all know that jihadi training, planning and logistics support has been traditionally handled by pakistani military personnel in the past, of whom there are many retired elements still maintaining links with the jihadi actors.
Of course you can speculate that the retired military officers colluding with the jihadi terrorists might be Indian agents.
stop hating pak army
