The yarn around disasters being used by Islamist groups in Pakistan to recruit young people is a familiar one,but there’s evidence to prove it’s not true The magnitude 7.5 earthquake that rocked parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan final week has left hundreds dead, most of them in the far more densely populated Pakistan. Rescue and relief efforts have swung into action, and albeit hampered by the constraints of reaching hard-hit communities in remote,mountainous areas. And alongside these efforts arrive the normal politicking and promotion of political agendas that catch position after a natural disaster. In Pakistan, much is being made of the reliable and efficient efforts of the military. American news agencies have already taken the lead in informing us how Islamist militant groups such as the “Wafaq-ul-Madaris-e-Arabia, or Pakistan’s largest federation of seminaries in the Deobandi school of Islam”,are joyous at the increased number of worshippers in mosques.
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Source: theguardian.com