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ISIS is gaining ground in Afganishtan, that can't be denied. Now realistically speaking India can't do sh*t about it but may be you guys can. I honestly don't trust the competence and the intent of Afghans - sometimes it seems like they have no sense for self- preservation which Pakistan has in loads.
Pakistan on the other hand is doing a good job in hunting down and killing terrorists on it's western front and recent news of killing of that LeJ head indeed bought a smile to my face. So there is certainly no dearth of intent or capability on your side.
The danger of ISIS taking root in Pakistan and it's subsequent spread to India does seem to be remote as things stand but we all to be on our toes.
India and Pakistan relationship despite the long hostility and ill will have more or less settled in a stable trajectory in post 1999 nuclear weapons age. So the chief danger is not from each other but from those with nothing to loose.
You cannot predict the future. ..no one predicted the Taliban's sudden rise..nor anyone predicted al qaeda or ttp's rise a decade and a half ago. .Similarly the isis emerged from the blue all of a sudden within the year.
Assuming that it will not happen nor there is any chance of it is no practical. .South Asia is home to the largest muslim population - most of them poor, a high percentage of them uneducated, many indoctrinated, coupled with relatively weak and unstable countries with too many sectarian issues and internal turmoil and power struggles, a number of extremist ideologies already present that matches to a lesser extent what the isis preaches like deobandi Jamaatis etc, tens of thousands of jihadis, huge illegal arms market, the biggest producer of opium - a perfect breeding ground for any such group willing to go the extra mile in establishing itself.
There is too much fodder in south Asia for any jihadi group to ignore, men, material, weapons, drugs, corruption, weak policing, mostly porous borders, with established smuggling routes between all countries, enough mullahs and madrassah to churn out jihadis, a lot of hatred internally and externally among each other ..plus a soft target for such jihadi actions in the form of India.
We have had terrorist attacks and proxy wars much before than the ME in modern times..I'll ions have died violently in the last 50-60 years of our existence.
I am surprised when members here assume that south Asia isn't a potential target. .I guess most are ignorant and do not comprehend what kind of crap hole we live in.