Pak orders crackdown in Waziristan

LAHORE: The Pakistan government has ordered a crackdown against the Jamaatul Furqaan (JuF), the Al-Qaeda linked splinter group of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), after receiving intelligence reports that hundreds of the JuF activists, being trained at one of its Waziristan camps, were planning to target the western interests inside Pakistan.

According to the intelligence sources, the crackdown has been ordered in view of sensitive agencies reports that the Jamaatul Furqaan was contemplating to target the British and American interests in Pakistan as a reaction against the atrocities being committed by the troops of the two countries in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The JeM, led by Maulana Masood Azhar, has already claimed that the key plotter of the transatlantic planes bombing plan, Rashid Rauf, was actually a member of JuF.

The JuF is providing bunches of volunteers to a Qaeda leader of the Arab origin who has formed a group Al-Jehad in North Wazirastan with objectives of carrying out attacks on the important personalities in the government of Pakistan and eliminating those who in their view are working in the North and South Wazirastan, detrimental to the interests of the Taliban.

Elaborating the formation of Al-Jehad, led by Abu Adil and being collaborated by Jamaatul Furqaan, the intelligence reports say that the group is involved in attacking the Pakistani security forces deployed in the Wazirastan region and the security interests of other countries including the US and Britain, deployed in the bordering belt inside Afghanistan.

These reports say a religious seminary — Madrassah Nizamiah, situated in Miran Shah, is being used to impart military training to jehadis who are recruited and sent to the Madrassah by one Qari Abdul Karim Khosa of the JuF.