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Attacks claimed by ISIS in Pakistan are rare, the most significant being a 2015 gun assault on a bus in Karachi that killed 44 people.Two people were killed in France on Monday by a man claiming allegiance to ISIS — and known to French intelligence for his role in a Pakistan-linked jihadist group.Analysts say that while the group’s ultra-violent ideology has seen some success as a recruitment tool, ISIS is still scrabbling for purchase in Pakistan largely due to competition from well established extremist groups already there.A senior party member told AFP that his son had become a jihadist and is now missing.
Other murky links between Pakistan and ISIS attacks have also emerged.However Pakistani officials told AFP that hundreds of suspects have been rounded up as authorities try to break an domestic ISIS recruitment network.Mr Trump cited an attack in California last November, when a Pakistani woman and her US-born husband were praised by ISIS as “soldiers” of the caliphate after killing 14 people. Weinbaum, director of the Pakistan Centre at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC.Authorities have also arrested multiple people accused of ISIS sympathies with links to the religious political party, Markazi Jamiat Ahle-Hadith Pakistan (MJAP). Is that ISIS mainly attracts and tries to recruit disillusioned members of the Taliban movements as well as the likes of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba,” analyst Al-Tamimi said.White House hopeful Donald Trump mentioned Pakistan in a speech this week in New Hampshire as he doubled down on anti-immigration threats in the wake of the bloody rampage in Orlando.
As investigators probe connections between the Orlando killer and the Islamic State group, analysts say the jihadists are struggling to gain a foothold in one country repeatedly linked to their high-profile attacks: Pakistan.Last year authorities traced a mother-of-four who went missing from Lahore with her children over fears she had left the country to join ISIS.The jostling of Pakistan’s array of other extremist groups means ISIS will not become a threat to Islamabad “any time soon”, said Weinbaum.
Her family says she is now in an ISIS-controlled area of Syria along with another Pakistani family.Authorities also found evidence of ISIS recruitment efforts in Pakistan’s wealthiest province Punjab, and made spray gun Manufacturers arrests in 2014. Islamic organisations and security sources say at least two dozen people suspected of ISIS connections have been detained in the port megacity of Karachi. We have busted several recruitment cells here,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.But the group’s seeming inability to establish itself on Pakistani soil may not deter “lone wolf” attacks, as US investigators believe happened in Orlando.
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