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Hassan and Chaudhry were worlds apart that day, but both came from the same place that has produced the world’s leading Islamic terrorists — from the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad to the London 7/7 bombers, the Mumbai 27/11 terrorist attackers on India and our very own failed jihadis in the Toronto-18 case – Pakistan.
Behind this unending fervour of jihad is the Pakistan military-industrial complex, that was first exposed by the courageous Pakistani author Ayesha Siddiqa in her book “Military Inc”.
Robert Hathaway of the Woodrow Wilson Centre says the book is “an incisive look at the largely hidden economic empire run by and for the benefit of Pakistan’s military.” He adds, “This courageous book will not please Pakistan’s generals.”
Right in our backyard are hundreds of retired Pakistan military officers who have formed the “Pakistan Armed Forces Association of Canada PAFAC” based out of Mississauga, where events are held to celebrate Pakistan military’s accomplishments despite the fact it has lost every war they have fought against India.
I wrote to PAFAC president Major (ret’d) Muhammad Irfan asking him how many retired Pakistan military officers have settled in Canada, but I didn’t get a response.
The anger against Pakistan’s military that rules the country with an iron fist has so far been muted. Five thousand political activists have simply disappeared while in the last month alone dozens of journalists have been arrested, with military-backed goons calling for the genocide of Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslims.