Pakistan - A Global Nursery of Terrorism

 Pakistan, A global Nursery of Terrorism

During the last 25 years, almost every major terror incident throughout the world carried its traces to Pakistan. Either Pakistanis were directly involved or the planning took place on Pakistani territory. Yet we are quick in shifting blame to others.

Here is the list of major terror incidents and the persons involved:

-January 1993, CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia; Attack killing two CIA employees. The attacker was Ajmal Kansi, a Pakistani. He got arrested 4 years later.

-February 1993, World Trade Center was attacked with a truck bomb. Mastermind of the attack, Ramzi Yousuf in 1995, got captured from Islamabad, Pakistan.

-August 1998, American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. 220 people died and 4000 wounded. One of the planners Ahmed Khalfan Ghelani arrested in 2004 from Gujrat, Pakistan.

-October 2000, Suicide attack on USS Cole. The mastermind, Waleed bin Attash was arrested in 2003 from Karachi, Pakistan.

-May 2002, 11 French Naval Engineers were killed in a suicide bombing, inside Sheraton Hotel, Karachi, Pakistan. The planner, Mufti Muhammad Shabbir, came out to be a Pakistani.

-May 2010, the Bombing attempt at New York times failed and the attacker, Faisal Shehzad got arrested. He turned out to be a Pakistani.

-December 2, 2015, San Bernardino attack, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured, was carried out by Farook and Tashfeen Malik, both were Pakistanis.

-Aafia Siddiqui an MIT trained Pakistani neuroscientist, a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda, was convicted on two counts of attempted murder of US nationals, officers, and employees, assault with a deadly weapon, carrying and using a firearm,

and three counts of assault on US officers and employees.

-Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab who took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in the Maharashtra state of India was from Faridkot, Pakistan.

-Leader of Al Qaida, Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi currently held in American costudy was arrested from Pakistan in March 2002.

-Ramzi bin Shibh, a Yemeni, who was the key facilitator for the September 11 attacks was captured on September 11, 2002, from Karachi, Pakistan.

-Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks", was a Pakistani and was captured on March 1, 2003, from Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

-Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan and a senior member of the al-Qaeda was captured on May 2, 2005, from Mardan, Pakistan.

-Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, a Syrian, al-Qaeda member and writer involved in 1985 El Descanso bombing and 2004 Madrid train bombings, got captured in October 2005 from Quetta, Pakistan.

-Hakeemullah Mehsud, a member of Al Qaida and TTP leader, a Pakistani from South Waziristan, killed by US drone strike on 12 January 2012.

-Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of TTP, was a Pakistani from Bannu, got killed on 5 August 2009 in a U.S. drone attack in the Zangar area of South Waziristan.

-Nek Muhammad Wazir, a prominent Pakistani mujahideen leader from South Waziristan, was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan, FATA, Pakistan in 2004.

-Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the leader of the Taliban was killed on 21 May 2016, in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.

-The Leader of Al Qaida Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

-Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Supreme Leader of Taliban wanted by the United States Department of State's Rewards for Justice program after October 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda militants in the years prior to the September 11 attacks, died in 2013 in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

-Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda, directed 1995 attack on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Special Service Group taking control of the Red Mosque in Islamabad found letters from al-Zawahiri directing Abdul Rashid Ghazi, and Abdul Aziz Ghazi, who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah. Abdul Aziz Ghazi, has been declared innocent by the government and now running a new madrassah in Islamabad, which has been built

for him by the government of Pakistan.

-Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the father of Taliban and had close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is currently the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania and chairman of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council. Sami ul-Haq is also the creator of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He is a Pakistani has also served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan.

-Some famous people who have been involved in cross-border and global terrorism such as Malik Ishaq, Ghani Usman, Hafiz Saeed, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Sufi Muhammad, Masood Azhar etc. are all Pakistani.

Pakistan is a Global nursery of Terrorism