Abstract:
Pakistan over the last one and half decade had been badly tangled into extremism.
During 2013 it was viewed as one of the most hazardous country in the world and the
largest city namely Karachi a major economic epicenterhad been evaluated as the 8th
most dangerous city in the world to live. A series of violent attacks and predominant
wave of extremist’s activities engulf the country into many dangers. A country based on
approximately 200 million population was badly suffered from both internal and external
security threats due to ever increasing militant groups and deep interference from external
elements to promote such groups.Unfortunately, due to poor law and order situation
militant groups were having safe havens in various parts of the country which paved the
ground for what they were created and subsequently operated. A force which was
previously created to engage Russia back in eighties popularizing the idea of jihad
against them to protect Muslim brothers in Afghanistan gave birth to a dangerous force
that now poses a serious threat not only Pakistan rather to the entire world.
Inappropriately, a force driven through religion motivation and created to serve different
national interests was left abandoned without any serious supervision at state level. A
force which was trained in lines to show extreme aggression persisted to serve the
purpose and ultimately made extremism an unfortunate reality for Pakistan.
Extremist’s groups had regularly targeted various organizations i.e, sectarian
killings, blasphemy incidents, suicidal bomb blast at mosques, shrines, government
buildings, academic institutions and religious gatherings forced the citizens of this
country to live constantly in a state of fear and uncertainty. Extremist’s organization
really pushed law enforcement agencies including armed forces to a real war scenario.
The country suffered in terms of huge blockade of foreign investment and sacrifices of
precious lives both of innocent civilians as well as law enforcement agencies. The
scenario warrant immediate attention of all concerned across the globe to play their role
to curtail extremism at all fronts.
