Is Pakistan behind Jundullah?

Iranian ambassador in Pakistan, Mashallah Shakeri has alleged Jundullah hand cannot be ruled out in the suicide attack carried out in Iran Sunday. Talking to Geo News, Shakeri alleged Jundullah chief; Abdul Malik Regi has taken refuge in an unknown region of Baluchistan Province.

It was no brainer and later in the day Jundullah accepted the responsibility. Mashallah Shakeri's statement is alarming, not because he said it, but it's true. It's worth mentioning that ISI was involved in Sadiq Ganji's murder in 1990. Hassan Abbas, in his book "Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, The Army, And America's War On Terror" revealed that while Iranian Consul General Sadiq Ganji was shot by notorious terrorist Riaz Basra, "the other person on the motorcycle with Basra conducting the Ganji murder operation was an ISI official named Athar, a low-level official from the Pakistan Air Force.." Later same outfit was involved in attacks on Iran's cultural centres in Pakistan. Sadly, our soil has not been very kind to Iranians.

And now this whole sage of Jundullah will harm our relationship with Iran. A quick look on web will give you eye opening details about the terrorist group.

In an October 17, 2008 interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV, its leader Abdolmalek Rigi stated the group had given "over 2000 men" military, political and ideological training but that the number of its members "in the mountains does not exceed 200." It has been reported that Baloch rebels connected with Narcotic smugglers are actually an instrument of United States Central Intelligence Agency and are being directed from CIA's Muscat station. It has also been alleged that Jundallah is involved in smuggling Iranian diesel fuel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, price of which is more than five times cheaper than the diesel fuel in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The diesel fuel is then bartered with opium, which is smuggled into Iran from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be sold in Iran.

There is no doubt that our masters (Americans) are behind Jundullah and we will need to seriously investigate this allegation. We don't have safe borders. India has always been our enemy, not safe from our eastern border, we have now opened new frontier in North Wazirstan. We are pushed into this offense or not, it's another debate but lets be clear that we are loosing few sincere friends left in the world. America has its own agenda and vulnerable Pakistan suits it. Is this good for as well, let's focus on our national interests.

Instead of fighting diplomatic battle with Iran, we should support our neighbour in finding the culprits. Good neighbours do this, are we any good?

http://www.diplomaticourier.org/kmitan/articleback.php?newsid=228

Noor Ali Shooshtari, Deputy Commander Revolutionary Guards, and other elite commanders are the latest...

A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.

The official IRNA news agency said the dead included the deputy commander of the Guard's ground force, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as a chief provincial Guard commander for the area, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. The other dead were Guard members or local tribal leaders. More than two dozen others were wounded, state radio reported.

The commanders were inside a car on their way to a meeting with local tribal leaders in the Pishin district near Iran's border with Pakistan when an attacker with explosives blew himself up, IRNA said.

Iran's state-owned English language TV channel, Press TV, said there were two simultaneous explosions: one at the meeting and another targeting an additional convoy of Guards on their way to the gathering.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the region in Iran's southeast has been the focus of violent attacks by a militant group from Iran's Sunni Muslim minority called Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which has waged a low-level insurgency in recent years.

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