Tehran: There are serious fears among neighbouring countries of pakistan and Afghanistan that terrorists will establish Islamic State of Bakistan (Pakistan) and Afghanistan (ISBA) on the lines of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). There is a strong reason of such fears because thousands of Pakistanis are doing Jihad with ISIS and they will have contacts, training and support of ISIS to establish ISBA in this region. Iranian Media has been reporting that thousands of Pakistani militants mostly from Khyber Pakhtun Khawa (KPK) are fighting Jihad in Syria against Syrian Shia government.
Media reports suggested these Pakistanis are already working with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since they left for Jihad via Saudi Arabia and gulf and this flow of terrorists to Middle East from Pakistan continued till Saudi Arabia announced ISIS as a terrorist outfit on March 7 this year. Islamabad has always denies such reports that Pakistanis are going for Jihad to Syria. There are also reports that hundreds of Europeans and American Muslims are in the army of Salafi militants fighting for a purist Middle East promising themselves to kill all Shias from Middle East.
These extremists who have been killing thousands of Muslims in Middle East had allegedly been sponsored by Saudi Arabia to fight against Shia governments of Iraq and Syria while European Union and United States of America have been providing intelligence, weapons, financial funding to ISIS to replace Syrian government.
By March this year it was cleared to the international community that ISIS had a bigger agenda than just to throw Syrian government therefore Americans put pressure on Saudi Arabia to disengage itself from ISIS terrorists. Therefore Saudi Arabia declared ISIS as a terrorist outfit on March 7 this year. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia declared three Sunni radical organisations as “Terrorist outfits”. These organisations include the Muslim Brotherhood, the al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or known as ISIS. This disengagement of Saudi government was followed by interesting developments within the Royal Kingdom. Saudi Arabia official press in first week of May confirmed that it had apprehended the first terrorist cell affiliated to the outlawed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, arresting a total of 62 suspects, including 35 Saudi nationals previously detained on terrorist-related charges. Riyadh designated ISIS, an Al-Qaeda splinter group, as a terrorist organization in early March.
This biggest catch of such a strong terrorist network is announced just 15 days after the removal of Prince Bandar—the chief of Saudi Intelligence. People consider removal or stepping down of Bandar as one of the biggest development in Saudi Arabian intelligence networking. Experts claim there is link between the two events. Prince Bandar popularly known as “Bandar Bush” due to his close relations with Bush family had been Saudi ambassador to the US for 22 years. He is a legendary networker and hawk dealing closely with terrorist organizations, allegedly harboring and sponsoring them in different regions of the world including Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Syria and African states. The Saudi media said Bandar stepped down at his own request. He is replaced by his deputy Youssef bin Ali al-Idrisi, who is not from royal family. Now ISIS is gaining momentum all around Saudi Arabia and the Chief of ISIS Abu Bakr al Baghdadi who was born in Samarra, Iraq in 1971 is of course not happy with Saudi government.
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was a cleric in a mosque in the city at around the time of the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Baghdadi reportedly led several smaller militant groups before being promoted to a seat on the Majlis al-Shura of the mujahideen and the judicial council of the Islamic State of Iraq.
Al-Baghdadi was captured and held at Camp Bucca, a US facility in southern Iraq where many al-Qaeda commanders were detained until his release in 2009. According to Army Col. Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca, al-Baghdadi’s last words were “‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’”.
Al-Baghdadi was announced as the leader of the ISI on 16 May 2010, following the death of his predecessor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, in a raid the month before. He continued to lead the group upon its formal expansion into Syria on 8 April 2013. The group subsequently became known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (both names and abbreviations are used interchangeably).
Militant circles believe that Baghdadi will reach some day to Pakistan to take revenge of the death of Osama Bin Laden as he was furious over the death of OBL and did not take any food for three consecutive days and took oath to take revenge of OBL from Americans and Pakistani authorities.
If this situation happens, things will become very serious for Iran as it is bordering all hotspots like Syria, Iraq and Pakistan therefore Iran must build up stronger force to cover its entire border and should go for recruitment of more volunteer Guards to protect their mother land.
