India should be worried: Is Pakistan army trying to mainstream jihadi groups?
There is talk in Pakistan that the emergence of the TLP and the MML is actually an effort of the army to mainstream militant and jihadi groups.
The series of events in Pakistan over the past two months that culminated in the siege of its capital Islamabad by adherents of the Tehreek i Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) and the following abject surrender of the state are an ominous warning of the rise of the religious right in the country. The TLYRA is a Barelvi group formed following the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard who killed Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in 2011 and
