Causes of Extremism-Radicalism in FATA- KP and Implications for National Security of Pakistan

Author(s) : Ashfaq Ahmad, Zulfiqar Hussain

Abstract:

The paper examines that lack of legislative support, interest and infrastructural revival left FATA and Frontiers Region far behind the rest of Pakistan in economic, social and political terms. It may be negligence coincidence with the hard facts of region such as conflict in Afghanistan that made FATA and Frontiers Region ideal breeding grounds for extremism and radicalism. The importance can be judged from the fact that owing to present deteriorating law and order scenario in KP and FATA, whole Pakistan’s milieu has become a sheer victim of the essential fallouts. As a result of the breeding grounds of terrorism and radicalism, the economy of the country reached to the lowest ebb. Foreign exchange reserves remained alarmingly at the low level. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is substantially low in history of the country. Terrorism, fundamentalism, sectarianism and extremism have become order of the day. Private investor is in limbo and is looking for new horizons for his investment abroad such as Middle East, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. Kalashnikov culture has become prominent and extortionists are wandering as the free birds in the mainland. Accordingly, causes of extremism need to be analyzed with their essential impacts upon the national security of Pakistan at this critical juncture.