Throughout the GWOT, the USA/ allies implemented several initiatives aimed at countering the ideologies of AQ and ISIS. While considerable focus has been placed on these countries’ military capabilities, including their nuclear ambitions, considerably less attention has been paid to understanding and fighting their ideologies. Therefore, the USA and its allies need to fight both the military capacity as well as the ideologies of strategic adversaries in a synergistic way where both are undermined simultaneously; while remaining extremely careful of increased apocalypticism in our adversaries’ ideologies. Therefore, while fiercely guarding own National Ideology, Pakistan can neither afford to ignore the extremist policies/ ideology of Modi-led BJP in India and pursuance of the Greater India Dream threatening Pakistan and other SAARC countries, nor disregard ideologies of different non-state actors/ terrorist outfits in order to successfully contest them in all dimensions. Any short-circuiting in the suggested steps is prone to make a secure and stable Pakistan a distant dream.

Source: The Nation November 24, 2024 20:30 UTC