11,500 Pakistani jihadis have been killed in jihad against India

The rural areas of Central and Northern Punjab and the POK, some of the rural areas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the entire FATA, where the negative perceptions about India are the strongest, are also the main recruiting ground for the Pakistan Army. The Army gets about 75 per cent of its recruits in various ranks from these areas. Thus, the negative perceptions of the people of these areas about India get automatically transferred to the Army when the people of these areas join the Army in large numbers.

These areas, where the negative perceptions about India are the strongest, are also the areas where the influence of religious orthodoxy and clerics is the strongest. Religious orthodoxy and the influence of the clerics on the minds of the people aggravate the innate negative perceptions of the people of these areas. As a result, one finds that these areas, which send the largest number of recruits to the Pakistan Army for defending Pakistan against India, also send the largest number of volunteers to the jihadi terrorist organisations for waging a jihad against India and the Hindus.

According to a study made by Ms Rubina Saigol, Country Director, Action Aid, Pakistan, last year, about 8,000 Pakistani Punjabis, about 3,000 from the North-West Frontier Province and about 500 from Sindh are estimated to have died in the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. As against this, only 112 Balochs have died in Jihad, mostly in Afghanistan.

That is, of the 11,500 Pakistani jihadis, who are estimated by a reputed Pakistani analyst to have died while waging a jihad in India since 1989, 11,000, that is, 95 per cent, came from this negative belt.

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