ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is faced with a new security threat from the emergenceof Islamic State in South Asia.
Pakistan and India are under a new threat of the deadly terroristorganisation Islamic State, media has reported.
The threat emerge from IS major shift from the Middle East, a recent studyhas found.
According to a new research conducted by Abdullah Khan, the ManagingDirector of Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS),‘Wilayat-e-Hind’ (WeH) is the new chapter of Daesh which is quicklyattracting the educated youth in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, andpromoting its extremist ideology.
The ongoing military operations in and around Pakistan’s border areas withAfghanistan have provided gaps to the IS militants who have swiftly movedin either from Syria or Iraq and have presence in across the borderingareas in Afghanistan, the study found, adding that the terror group isprovoked by the governments of India and Bangladesh which are known fortheir ‘state-sponsored terrorism’ against the Muslim communities.
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PROSPECTS OF IS IN SOUTH ASIA:
The study titled “Prospects of Daesh’s Expansion in South Asia” says thatan unorganised presence of WeH militants has been identified in parts ofPakistan, India, Bangladesh and other countries of the South Asian region.The WeH operates as an Indian chapter of the IS which was formallyannounced in 2016.
