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“Pakistan Massively Misusing Religion Breeding Jihadism”: Military Historian Tom Cooper

“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 …

Border-Gavaskar Trophy | ‘I was waiting for his cheeky grin but … yeah’: Phillip Hughes’s team-mate and room-mate Tom Cooper remembers the tragic incident | Cricket News

Border-Gavaskar Trophy | ‘I was waiting for his cheeky grin but … yeah’: Phillip Hughes’s team-mate and room-mate Tom Cooper remembers the tragic incident | Cricket News

Border-Gavaskar Trophy: With the documentary The boy from Macksville on the life of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who lost his life after a ball hit him ten years ago, releasing post the end of the opening day of the second Pink Ball Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide Oval, Hughes’s former team-mate Tom Cooper has shared about the tragic moment at Sydney Cricket Ground. The then 25-year-old Hughes, who was about to turn 26 in two days, was struck on the neck during a Sheffield Shield match on November 25, 2014 and had breathed his last in hospital two days later. “He sort of swung around and at first I thought he looked at me. I was waiting for his cheeky grin but … yeah. I guess at that moment, no-one had any idea of the severity of what everyone had just witnessed. Pretty quickly we knew it was a bit more serious and he wasn’t just going to get up, but we still didn’t know what had actually happened. It felt …