My views on Pakistan are clear. It is a failed state and it requires an international concert to rescue the country before that failure becomes truly catastrophic. India is angry and rightly so but it is important now more than ever to urge India to show patience and restraint. And it is incumbent upon the rest of the world community to take Pakistani authorities to task over their failure to rein in extremist elements that freely operate throughout the country. This is not about Kashmir nor is this about the treatment of India’s 130 million Muslims. This is Islamic terror bent on establishing an Islamic Caliphate in Central Asia. This is about the 20,000 madrassas in Pakistan that operate outside the jurisdiction of the Pakistani state. These madrassas have become the training ground for global jihad preaching a virulent form of Islam. This no longer threatens just India or Pakistan but the entire world.
In this segment from World Focus, Thomas Sanderson, the deputy director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, assesses the accuracy of the accusation and comments on Pakistan’s commitment to anti-terrorism. Mr. Sanderson explains why these attacks are being described as inspirational for other terrorist groups and asserts that this type of terror is combated with intelligence.