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In Rizvi and his group, the Generals found a useful tool to check the power of Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Muslim League in Punjab, sharif’s home turf. “The army saw an opportunity in the TLP and its dynamic leader Khadim Husain Rizvi. The Sunni Tehreek and other extremist groups hailed Qadri, a Barelvi, as a savior and threatened all who opposed the blasphemy law, informed Shenoy for the Inside Over.Īfter Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was killed by his guard, Mumtaz Qadri, over his statements and actions against anti-blasphemy law, the Sunni Tehreek’s founder Khadim Hussain Rizvi and others criticised Qadri’s guilty verdict and his eventual hanging. The group has considerable influence in Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh as well as Pakistan’s Punjab province. Many of the Barelvis joined the Sunni Tehreek group in 2001 after their return to Pakistan. It was once considered to be relatively peaceful and more liberal than the Deobandi school. “This translates into violence against all minorities, Islamic or otherwise and those who are seen to challenge Islamic principles including other Sunni sects such as the Deobandi and Ahmadiyyas,” Shenoy said.įurthermore, most party members follow the Barelvi school of Islamic thought, which has a massive following in South Asia and parts of Europe and the US. It was founded with the principal objective of upholding the honour and teachings of Prophet Muhammad by all means. The TLP was banned by the Pakistani government on April 15 due to its grassroot civil disobedience and violence. Other proxies of the Pakistani establishment are Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), who are running terrorist training camps. The Pakistani army strongly supports this “new” radical offshoot of Islam, given its challenges controlling the Taliban and is encouraging the development of the TLP as a proxy. It has challenged the Pakistan state writ in the past few weeks by indulging in rampant violence and arson. The past years of US occupation of Afghanistan, as well as various geopolitical changes, may mean that Pakistani intelligence and army may have to find another proxy to achieve multiple objectives such as keep the Taliban in check in Afghanistan and to continue terrorist activities while maintaining an internationally clean image to receive aid from multilateral and bilateral donors in the west, which effectively keep its economy alive, writes Vas Shenoy for Inside Over Islamabad, Pakistan: Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has emerged as a potential next big terrorist threat to the world after the Taliban after the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.