{"id":4485,"date":"2024-03-26T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:14:40","slug":"the-war-of-terror-in-praetorian-pakistan-the-emergence-and-struggle-of-the-pashtun-tahaffuz-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=4485","title":{"rendered":"The War of Terror in Praetorian Pakistan: The Emergence and Struggle of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author<\/b>: <\/span>Aasim Sajjad Akhtar<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Journal of Contemporary Asia<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place: <\/b>August 31, 2020\/UK<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature: <\/b>Article\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Number of Pages: <\/b>15<\/span><\/p>

Link: <\/b>https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00472336.2020.1809008<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords: <\/b>Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, Establishment, Pashtun, United States.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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Brief:<\/b><\/p>

The article focuses on the US and Pakistani establishment\u2019s alliance in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The \u201cwar on terror\u201d has dismantled Afghanistan and the bordering Pashtun-populated regions in Pakistan. The indifferent behavior of the unholy trinity US drone, Taliban, and Pakistani security establishment toward the ethnic Pashtun has created a civil rights uprising. The fake-encounter killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a native of Waziristan, by local police in Karachi along with a state policy of enforced disappearances of ethnic Baluch and Pashtun in the early 2000s has brought the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM,<\/span> Pashtun Protection Movement) to the forefront.\u00a0 Professor and politician Aasim Sajjad Akhter argues that the non-violent protest movement, inclined for <\/span>dharna (<\/span><\/i>sit-in Protest) in Islamabad, has challenged the legitimacy of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d and shook the national security state of Pakistan. The principal patrons of <\/span>mujahideen <\/span><\/i>(holy warriors) including General (and later President) Zia-ul-Haq pushed the country on the path of radicalization, which became prominent after 9\/11. The author points out that the political economy of<\/span> jihad<\/span><\/i> entailed not only training and incubating <\/span>mujahideen, <\/span><\/i>but also involved the wholesale induction of ideologically committed functionaries at all levels of Pakistan\u2019s coercive state apparatus which have remained in the country’s plethora of secret agencies. The US\u2019 \u201cdo more\u201d mantra was branded in different versions (but with the same results\u2014civilian casualties) by the Pakistani security state\u2019s counter-terrorism strategies in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and other districts; the military operations of <\/span>Zarb-e Azab<\/span><\/i> (Swift and Sharp Strike), Rah-e-Nijat (Pathway to Salvation), and <\/span>Radd-ul-Fasaad<\/span><\/i> (Elimination of Discord) were propagated as a resounding success by army officials. But the civilian causalities, which exceeded 100,000, and the role of the Pakistan army simply mirrors US led NATO forces in Afghanistan. Sajjad critically analyzes the role of civilian government issuing a blank cheque to the security establishment \u2013 a majority of bourgeois parties have willingly been junior partners to the generals that have been arbiters of power for most of the country\u2019s existence. The author concludes with a positive note that as Pakistan staggers from one crisis to the next, that the alternative hegemonic impulses of the PTM offer hope of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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By:<\/b> Razia Wadood, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Affiliation: Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.\u00a0 Organization\/Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Date\/Place: August 31, 2020\/UK Type of Literature: Article\u00a0 Number of Pages: 15 Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00472336.2020.1809008 Keywords: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, Establishment, Pashtun, United States. \u00a0 Brief: The article focuses on the US and Pakistani establishment\u2019s alliance in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-and-southeast-asia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd-300x211.jpg",300,211,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd-768x541.jpg",768,541,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","tag_info":"South & Southeast Asia","comment_count":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd-300x211.jpg",300,211,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/jhgfd.jpg",1000,704,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"CIGA Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?author=22"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Author: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Affiliation: Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.\u00a0 Organization\/Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Date\/Place: August 31, 2020\/UK Type of Literature: Article\u00a0 Number of Pages: 15 Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00472336.2020.1809008 Keywords: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, Establishment, Pashtun, United States. \u00a0 Brief: The article focuses on the US and Pakistani establishment\u2019s alliance in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}