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[Aidoneus]

"BFEE" may be evil fucks, but they're not Supermen--believe it or not, something can happen on its own without their direction.

Technically it goes back to Kissinger and Brezhinski(sp?), for people like Azam Tariq and leaders who came before him, the Maulana Jhangvi for example, got their start with the dictator put in place by the US/CIA-backed militaray right before the Afghan/Soviet war. Kissinger had the elected president killed after he refused to stop Pakistan's nuclear program, the military took over again after that.

The anti-Shia stuff that this is tied to (practically Azam Tariq's raison d'etre and almost certainly what got his ass shot) basically originated from the victory of the Islamic Republicans in the Iranian revolution, it was feared in Pakistan that their US-backed dictator would be next to fall so something had to be "done" about them. Hence groups like Sipah e-Sahaba (headed by the dead man these riots are over) & Lashkar Jhangvi running around with their "Shia Kafir" slogans. Of course, the opportunistic gamble forming these groups previously is now a burden to the State (again under a US-backed military dictator, funny how those things work) as they're not exactly useful in the same sense or remotely under control anymore--but that's something that statist bureaucrats never consider when they think they've got a real brilliant idea to try out.

To be fair, the US presence and FBI domination in certain sectors is taking it all up a few volumns and making existing situations far more heated, but credit for these things must also be directed elsewhere.