A clip of Pakistan's political affairs adviser admitting to Islamabad's own militancy playbook is doing the rounds online, and it couldn't have come at a worse moment for Rawalpindi. The adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister Rana Sanaullah on political affairs was speaking on the unrest in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) when he said something Pakistani officials almost never say out loud: the very fighters Islamabad once trained and sent across as "mujahideen" are now the region's biggest headache.
In his own words, those mujahideens were told to go and fight, and ever since, they've been stuck around Pakistan's neck. He added that these groups are still armed, still active on the ground, and, in his telling, have no genuine political demand or public cause left. He accused them of hiding behind ordinary civilians as a shield and said law enforcement action against them was the only option left to restore order.
