British and Indian security may not agree with Bruce Riedel's analysis. Pakistani army and ISI [ a state within a state ] have had a close relationship with jihadis from 1948, when they unleashed frontier tribesmen to rape and pillage Mirpur, Gilgit and the rest of Kashmir. Even today, good connections exist between ISI and the Afghan insurgents. According to a US report, the Pak army has many officers and men who believe in Wahabism they had learnt in Saudi funded Madrassas. People shd remember Osama bin Laden is a Wahabi too. Britain's MI5 has termed Pakistan "The Finishing School" of Jihadis from ALL over the world. Al Quaida will strike at Islamabad, eventually. The siege of the Lal Masjid was only the early straw in the wind. The trouble with any religion-based "We Know the True God" ideology is that it is like a tightening anaconda snake. With each year, they become more and more fundamentalist because of constant pressure from their younger hot-heads. Like Hitler's Nazi ideology, once it is in place, it acquires a momentum of its own, and cannot be stopped in the middle. Germans knew Hitler was leading them to ruin but could not stop him. Nuclear bomb or two will be used by some hot-head who may think, "Oh yes, Allah has given me a sign that I should unleash it on the Kuffars, now". The Jihadis, insist on much sacrifice of blood in the name of ALLAH. Only the moderate, peace-loving Pakistanis can stop them. India shd support and strengthen them - More people to people
