“Pakistan Massively Misusing Religion Breeding Jihadism”: Military Historian Tom Cooper
Vienna: Stating Pakistan is “massively misusing religion,” breeding jihadism, Military aviation analyst and historian Tom Cooper said he does not expect the situation to change. Cooper, while talking to ANI, said that the religion-based terrorism has spread to Nigeria and the Philippines. “They (Pakistan) are massively misusing religion in particular, creating de facto breeding jihadism, financing, organising, commanding jihadism, through the history from Nigeria in West Africa to the Philippines in the Pacific. So, well in this regards, nothing is going to change. I do not expect anything to change,” he said. Cooper said that Pakistan is plagued by military dictatorship. “The relationship between Pakistani military and civilian leadership was never good. There are several coups and the country was subjected to military dictatorship through much of its history. So this issue is never going to be sorted out. The armed forces in Pakistan have their own aims,” he said. Cooper said that Indian intelligence has precisely monitored its targets and activities at Pakistani nuclear bases. “I find this commentary by the Indian defence minister …
