SAUDI
– IRAN PROXY WAR IN PAKISTAN
1. Religious divisions
among Muslims of our region are fueling to in-stability and terror. These
divisions are because of the 1400 years old sectarian split. A study by David
Montero in 2007 revealed that more than 4000 people were killed in this
conflict since 2007. From 2008-2014, according to a study of Human Rights
Watch, after the invent of Taliban, more than 10,000 people were killed because
of this sectarian conflict in this region. A number of attacks on Sufi Shrines
have also been reported in this period.
Estimates of the size of the two largest religious groups in Pakistan vary. According to Library of Congress, Pew Research Center, Oxford University, the CIA Factbook and other experts, adherents of Shi’a Islam in Pakistan make up 15–25% of the population of Pakistan of the total Muslims, while the remaining 80%–90% practice Sunni Islam. This makes Pakistan the country with the second largest Shia community after Iran by number of adherents. (Globally, Shia Islam constitutes 10–20% of the total Muslims, while the remaining 80%–90% practice Sunni Islam).
Sunni- Shia conflict is gathering a new strength in our region. With a recent attack on the Ismaili Shia community in Karachi, the risks are heightened by Pakistan’s long-standing role as a battlefield in a proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, which have been competing for influence in Asia and the Middle East since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
According to Reuters, this competition has heated up since the United States toppled secularist dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq and left the country under the control of an Iranian-influenced Shi’ite government.
The fight is going on between the Sunni and Shia militant groups in Pakistan as these groups are being sponsored by Iran and Saudi Arabia based on their religious affiliation. On the sunni side these groups include Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (affiliates of Al-Qaeda).
On the Shia side, Maulana Mureed Abbas Yazdani formed Sipa-e-Muhammad Pakistan in early 1990s. It is believed to be armed wing of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan. I is involved in assassination of Sunni Ulama and violence against Sunni community in Shia dominated areas in the country. It was banned in Pakistan by President Musharraf in 2002. It is accused of killing of central leadership of Sipa-e-Sahabah starting from Haq Nawaz Jhangvi to recent assassinations in Karachi and Rawalpinid. Its headquarters is in Thokar Niaz Baig Lahore and its leader is Syyed Ghulam Raza Naqvi who was imprisoned in 1996 and released in 2014. It is also accused to be behind massacre of students of a Sunni Madrassah and burning down of Madrassh Taleem-ul-Quran in Rawalpindi in 2013.
Pakistani security agencies believe that the group receives active support from Iran which is involved in funding and assisting its proxies in the country.
In 2012, a news report by Reuters states, “with a few hundred hard-core cadres, the highly secretive Lashkar-e-Jhangvi aims to trigger sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in US-allied Pakistan. Its immediate goal is to stoke the intense Sunni-Shia violence that has pushed countries like Iraq close to civil war.”
The religious theology, preached in Saudi Arabia, is extremely violent towards the Shia Islam. Prior to the Afghan war, Pakistan was a country with almost no sectarian conflict. But the Afghan war provided an ideal ground for all the geo-political forces an opportunity that they could not pass: USA secured its interest by stopping the Russian expansion in South Asia; Saudi Arabia, through its financing of the war, benefitted by emerging a dominant player in the Muslim world and by exporting its violent ideology in Pakistan and Afghanistan to stop Iranian revolution (of Ayatollah Khomeini).
On the violence management level an organization named “Milli Yakjehti Council” was formed to develop deeper understanding about sects and provide a platform for resolving conflicts through dialogue. However, the organization has badly failed in it’s initial agenda i-e to eliminate hate material from each other’s books and literature. At the government level, no serious efforts have been made to overcome this proxy war. The geographical and religious affiliation of Pakistan with Iran and Saudi Arabia respectively have always undermined all serious corrective measures in this regard.
It is the time that Pakistan shall see above these affiliations. Because, Pakistan comes first. No peace in Pakistan means no peace in the region. Pakistan must not stand as a platform for these religious proxy wars any more. Iran is an expansionist state. It has a hegemonic doctrine that its trying to enforce and has been targeting Saudi Arabia since the so called ''Islamic'' revolution took place. When Khominie came to power he called for the overthrown of all Arab leaders and establish self flagellation all over the Arab and Islamic world. People should acknowledge that Iran is behind the sectarian clash among Muslims. A man who called for the digging out the two ''idols''( Abu Bakar and Umar RA ) out of their graves slandering Ayshia RA of committing adultery, insulting Sahab here and there is yet considered to be a Muslim and wants to be the sole leader of Islam under wilayat al faqeeh. Who was behind Makkah attack? Who was behind Shia Sunni divide in Iraq and Lebanon? Who was behind the killing of our ambassador in Afghanistan? Who is killing the Syrian people? Who is bombing Shia to blame the Sunni and bombing Sunni to blame Shia? Being from the Arab world I have witnessed, studied and observed all of Iran's regime dirty filthy wrongdoing in the Arab and Islamic countries.
The article reads '' The religious theology, preached in Saudi Arabia, is extremely violent towards the Shia Islam''
Who set up the interfaith dialogue center among world religions? Saudi Arabia. Who set up the dialogue center between all Islamic sects and doctrines? Saudi Arabia. Accusing Saudi Arabia of being a part in the Sunni Shia divide is not true.
Saudi Arabia has a Shia population Zaidi, Ismaili in the south, twelver in the town of Qatif and all live in peace and harmony and treated equally with the rest of the people. While in Iran Sunnis are treated like ****. Other ethnicities are not allowed to even study using their mother tongue. Sunnis scholars get hanged every other day.
''Pakistani security agencies believe that the group receives active support from Iran which is involved in funding and assisting its proxies in the country.''
Any simliar accusing to Saudi Arabia? NO
Iran wants to create a Shia force inside Pakistan just like it did in Lebanon and Iraq using every means possible be it religious ones or political ones.
Estimates of the size of the two largest religious groups in Pakistan vary. According to Library of Congress, Pew Research Center, Oxford University, the CIA Factbook and other experts, adherents of Shi’a Islam in Pakistan make up 15–25% of the population of Pakistan of the total Muslims, while the remaining 80%–90% practice Sunni Islam. This makes Pakistan the country with the second largest Shia community after Iran by number of adherents. (Globally, Shia Islam constitutes 10–20% of the total Muslims, while the remaining 80%–90% practice Sunni Islam).
Sunni- Shia conflict is gathering a new strength in our region. With a recent attack on the Ismaili Shia community in Karachi, the risks are heightened by Pakistan’s long-standing role as a battlefield in a proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, which have been competing for influence in Asia and the Middle East since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
According to Reuters, this competition has heated up since the United States toppled secularist dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq and left the country under the control of an Iranian-influenced Shi’ite government.
The fight is going on between the Sunni and Shia militant groups in Pakistan as these groups are being sponsored by Iran and Saudi Arabia based on their religious affiliation. On the sunni side these groups include Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (affiliates of Al-Qaeda).
On the Shia side, Maulana Mureed Abbas Yazdani formed Sipa-e-Muhammad Pakistan in early 1990s. It is believed to be armed wing of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan. I is involved in assassination of Sunni Ulama and violence against Sunni community in Shia dominated areas in the country. It was banned in Pakistan by President Musharraf in 2002. It is accused of killing of central leadership of Sipa-e-Sahabah starting from Haq Nawaz Jhangvi to recent assassinations in Karachi and Rawalpinid. Its headquarters is in Thokar Niaz Baig Lahore and its leader is Syyed Ghulam Raza Naqvi who was imprisoned in 1996 and released in 2014. It is also accused to be behind massacre of students of a Sunni Madrassah and burning down of Madrassh Taleem-ul-Quran in Rawalpindi in 2013.
Pakistani security agencies believe that the group receives active support from Iran which is involved in funding and assisting its proxies in the country.
In 2012, a news report by Reuters states, “with a few hundred hard-core cadres, the highly secretive Lashkar-e-Jhangvi aims to trigger sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in US-allied Pakistan. Its immediate goal is to stoke the intense Sunni-Shia violence that has pushed countries like Iraq close to civil war.”
The religious theology, preached in Saudi Arabia, is extremely violent towards the Shia Islam. Prior to the Afghan war, Pakistan was a country with almost no sectarian conflict. But the Afghan war provided an ideal ground for all the geo-political forces an opportunity that they could not pass: USA secured its interest by stopping the Russian expansion in South Asia; Saudi Arabia, through its financing of the war, benefitted by emerging a dominant player in the Muslim world and by exporting its violent ideology in Pakistan and Afghanistan to stop Iranian revolution (of Ayatollah Khomeini).
On the violence management level an organization named “Milli Yakjehti Council” was formed to develop deeper understanding about sects and provide a platform for resolving conflicts through dialogue. However, the organization has badly failed in it’s initial agenda i-e to eliminate hate material from each other’s books and literature. At the government level, no serious efforts have been made to overcome this proxy war. The geographical and religious affiliation of Pakistan with Iran and Saudi Arabia respectively have always undermined all serious corrective measures in this regard.
It is the time that Pakistan shall see above these affiliations. Because, Pakistan comes first. No peace in Pakistan means no peace in the region. Pakistan must not stand as a platform for these religious proxy wars any more. Iran is an expansionist state. It has a hegemonic doctrine that its trying to enforce and has been targeting Saudi Arabia since the so called ''Islamic'' revolution took place. When Khominie came to power he called for the overthrown of all Arab leaders and establish self flagellation all over the Arab and Islamic world. People should acknowledge that Iran is behind the sectarian clash among Muslims. A man who called for the digging out the two ''idols''( Abu Bakar and Umar RA ) out of their graves slandering Ayshia RA of committing adultery, insulting Sahab here and there is yet considered to be a Muslim and wants to be the sole leader of Islam under wilayat al faqeeh. Who was behind Makkah attack? Who was behind Shia Sunni divide in Iraq and Lebanon? Who was behind the killing of our ambassador in Afghanistan? Who is killing the Syrian people? Who is bombing Shia to blame the Sunni and bombing Sunni to blame Shia? Being from the Arab world I have witnessed, studied and observed all of Iran's regime dirty filthy wrongdoing in the Arab and Islamic countries.
The article reads '' The religious theology, preached in Saudi Arabia, is extremely violent towards the Shia Islam''
Who set up the interfaith dialogue center among world religions? Saudi Arabia. Who set up the dialogue center between all Islamic sects and doctrines? Saudi Arabia. Accusing Saudi Arabia of being a part in the Sunni Shia divide is not true.
Saudi Arabia has a Shia population Zaidi, Ismaili in the south, twelver in the town of Qatif and all live in peace and harmony and treated equally with the rest of the people. While in Iran Sunnis are treated like ****. Other ethnicities are not allowed to even study using their mother tongue. Sunnis scholars get hanged every other day.
''Pakistani security agencies believe that the group receives active support from Iran which is involved in funding and assisting its proxies in the country.''
Any simliar accusing to Saudi Arabia? NO
Iran wants to create a Shia force inside Pakistan just like it did in Lebanon and Iraq using every means possible be it religious ones or political ones.
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