Today, as I spoke and presented
the paper below in the UNO- IPU joint conference on the subject of Counter
Terrorism in Belarus, I am really happy to state that I also raised the issue
of Kashmir in most effective way during the two speeches I delivered in front
of International media.
I made an appeal to the
International Political Elite and Senior Members of UN to pay attention to the
screams of Kashmiris who are under curfew since last one month. The
International community is requested to ask Pm Modi to lift the curfew on SOS
basis.
Before I could start my speech on
what innovative approaches and latest technologies could be used to counter the
plight of terrorism, I gave a detailed introduction of what terrorism is and
why is it becoming a source of fear and distress.
Terrorism is mainly used to
achieve political, religious and ideological ambitions and can be defined as
the use of terror as weapon to create violence against persons or property to
achieve the nefarious designs and targets. Terrorists mainly try to make the
government hostage, the civilian as a target of terror, pitch one sect of
religion to the other to gain political, economic and social objectives. The
history of terrorism is as old as human presence on earth Terrorism is
motivated towards creating a sense of fear among the people from different
communities and the countries worldwide. In Modern language we can say the
terrorism has transformed into a fear technology which contains multiple
factors to scare people and governments to achieve the objectives conspired by
terrorist groups, individuals and covertly by some states to achieve certain
International geo-set of objectives. Although Terrorism is not something new
and also can’t be termed as being a modern concept but its manifestations,
tools and approaches are turning as modern and innovative.
Now the world has witnessed that
the terrorism has been adopted as a tool to achieve a certain objective through
act of terror. The most common causes or roots of terrorism include:-
Civilizations or culture clashes
Globalization
Individual-based reasons for
terrorism are:-
Frustration
Deprivation
Negative identity
Conceited rage
Moral disengagement
I am constrained to say that
terrorism has also developed a tool of war which can be termed as an act
through guerrilla or act of violence on specific targets by creating terror of
terrorism. It is unfortunate that the world is developing a dangerous trend of
creating and training groups to act as terrorist to achieve the specific targets
against the enemy country
In short, terrorism is not
legally defined in all jurisdictions; the statutes that do exist, however,
generally share some common elements. Terrorism involves the use or threat of
violence and seeks to create fear, not just within the direct victims but among
a wide audience.
If we evaluate the existence of
the concept of terrorism we will find its roots in the ancient history. However
in civilized communities it is referred back to the French Revolution of the
late 18th century when terror was used as an instrument of State Policy and in
19th century Narodnaya Volya a Russian terrorist organization used terrorism as
a tool to achieve the political goals. In late 90’s, Kurds living in Syria,
Turkey and Iran used terrorism to form a separate Kurdish state for themselves
whereas in the same time period the Sri Lankan Tamils named as liberation
Tigers used terrorist activities along with drugs trafficking with a strong
support to the terrorist from the neighborhood.
Presently, The Hindu extremist
Sangh Parivar and mainly its Central Organization Rashtriya Sawayem Sevakh
Sangh RSS are spreading violence and extremism across the India in order to
eliminate the minorities residing in India and this is a new phenomenon in the
form of RSS ideology based on religious extremism duly investigated by the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom declaring in its 2004
recommendations, proposed that India be included on the State Department’s
official shortlist of the worst religious persecutors for its “egregious,
systematic, and ongoing” violations of religious fights. The designers of
terrorism used religious groups as terrorists which are now an open secret that
the world witnessed in Pakistan, Afghan, Philippines, Iraq, Syria, Libya,
Egypt, and Nigeria. There is a lot which can be spoken with authority and let
me leave it for some other occasion. Al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Hamas, ISIS and Boko
Haram are world known lethal terrorists organization justifying their acts of
terrorism in the name of Religion whereas they talk about religion but nothing
to do spiritually with it. The new phenomenon of Daesh ISIS is fast emerging a
lethal terrorist Organization and the world reach to block its inhuman
activities. For reference I would denote my book “Daesh –ISIS Rising Monster
worldwide” which I produced basing on the ground realities, personal
experiences and my analytical skills with respect to my experience in the
field. The war between the former Soviet Union and US in Afghanistan gave
emergence to Jihadis, Talibans and subsequently Al Qaeda Whereas the entire lot
of terrorist hailed from Middle East and not even a single terrorist from
Pakistan or Afghanistan but both the countries are still suffering because of
9/11.
Today’s terrorism is much more
different and fatal than that of the past because of the use of modern
technology by the terrorists posing a threat that is qualitatively different
from a damage based on firearms or chemical explosives used in the past.
While discussing the terrorism we
need to comprehend its types and forms. With the division of the targets and
the goals it can be divided into following classes:-
Religious Extremist turned into
Terrorists with motives which are present in almost every religion
State-Sponsored Terrorism to
achieve the geo political targets or targets against the given enemy. Now the
espionage against the enemy is overtly done through acts of terrorism. Whereas
espionage itself is a form of terrorism for the victim country.
Anti-State groups using Terror as
a weapon to blackmail the state.
Socially distressed groups use
terror for psychological reasons like what is happening in US by random
individuals.
Use of terrorism to promote
certain criminal activity including drugs production, drugs trafficking, Money
laundering and any other benefit to be achieved via terror.
Historically speaking the biggest
sufferer in the hands of terrorist from all over the world is Pakistan where we
have lost:-
According to Pakistan Economic
Survey (PES) 2017-18 Pakistan suffered a loss of $126 billion in the 17 years
Pakistan faced losses of $2.67
billion in the year 2001-02 when United States invaded Afghanistan with the
year wise losses gradually increasing till 2009-10.
Terrorism dented Pakistan’s
economy by $9.18 billion in 2008-09, $13.56 billion in 2009-10, $23.77 billion
in 2010-11, $11.98 in 2011-12, $9.97 billion in 2012-13, $7.70 billion in
2013-14, $9.24 billion in 2014-15, $6.49 billion in 2015-16, $5.47 billion in
2016-17 and $2.07 billion in 2017-18
Pakistan could not collect
$3459.67 million tax due to terrorism in last two years, in addition, $383.93
million has been spent on infrastructure and $129.89 million paid to affectees
of terrorism.
War on terror cost the proceeds
of privatization by $251.19 million and industrial output by $1043.90 million.
Finance Ministry reveal that due
to war on terror, Pakistan had to face $10 billion losses per year in trade.
Pakistan’s success in
countering-terrorism was acknowledged in the Global Terrorism Index Report 2017
published by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace
Pakistan has shown improvement in
its global terrorism index ranking with a decline in the terrorism incidences
and the deaths related to terrorist activities
During 2008-10 the GDP Fallen
from 7.8 to 3.5
In addition to the above quoted
report, the foreign investment up to $1234.40 million could not be attracted to
Pakistan due to the war on terrorism. The investment and development are
directly linked with the peace and security of the Country. I feel pain to
inform the International Forum that the deteriorating security situation in the
country while helping other ally’s created very unfortunate, distressing and
scary security environment in the country which ultimately stopped the
investment from abroad adding a bigger stress to our economy. I feel very
disheartened to report to you that the country who suffered because of helping
in War against Terrorism, Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, Tracking and
attacking the terrorist Ids now stands in grey list of FATF for some petty
complaints from the neighborhood country. My nation has a question to the
entire International community and I ask this question on behalf that is it the
reward for taking side of USA against the crimes against the humanity, and
after heavy suffering ultimately we have been now hunted from a hunter? Which
is total injustice by some powerful in the international community. The entire
country suffered in the hands of Taliban and Al Qaeda both on borders and
inside the country.
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