Discuss the evolution of Lashkar-e-Tayibba (LeT) in Pakistan
What will be an ideal response?
• The LeT seems to be emerging as a new global jihadist organization working in conjunction with al Qaeda.
• It is best known for its attacks in India, including a deadly series of attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, and its rejects all forms of Islam except its own interpretation.
• Pakistan officially banned the LeT in 2002, so it operates under a series of differing names.
• The LeT traditionally defined its operations around the Jammu and Kashmir conflict.
• The group has engaged in a series of terrorist operations beginning in 1993
• The LeT has also launched numerous attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
• LeT began to expand operations in Asia and the West in 2003
• The LeT may be operating with al Qaeda, and the two groups share many ideological concepts.
• This relationship protects the LeT from crackdowns when the Pakistani government moves against terrorist groups, and it allows LeT planners to have access to intelligence data.
• The LeT is well entrenched and in a position to launch further attacks; the LeT was a part of Pakistan's original regional strategy and an arm of the ISI.
• The growth of militancy in the tribal regions, however, has spawned a growth in the LeT.
• It has moved far beyond the ISI's ability to control the organization.
• There is fear the LeT will not only continue to execute Mumbai style attacks, it will continue to evolve as part of the international jihadist network.
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