{"id":54954,"date":"2014-10-17T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=54954"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:27:46","slug":"is-isis-trying-to-make-foothold-in-pakistan-54954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/is-isis-trying-to-make-foothold-in-pakistan-54954\/","title":{"rendered":"IS ISIS trying to make foothold in Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54955\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Islamic-Militants-Pakistan-Nationalturk-17.jpg\" alt=\"ISIS militants marching with flags. 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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to make foothold in Pakistan\u2019s commercial capital and financial hub, Karachi.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Oct 17\/Nationalturk \u2013 The intelligence agencies in Pakistan are worried over Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) trying to make foothold in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, ISIS is trying to make its foothold in Pakistan&#8217;s biggest city and industrial hub Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that in many areas in Karachi including\u00a0 Sohrab Goth, Gulshan-e-Maymar and Manghopir, walls have seen littered with ISIS inscribed in black.<\/p>\n<p>The ISIS inscriptions have been jotten down by unknown groups and have been seen written on walls at many places.<\/p>\n<p>The inscriptions have sent alarm bells among the intelligence agencies, who have asked police and other law enforcing agencies to increase their vigil and surveillance on the suspected persons.<\/p>\n<p>The ISIS has earlier announced its ambition to expand its Caliphate to Khorasan \u2013 a region referred to Iran, Afghanistan, and Indian sub-continent including Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Many terrorist commanders in Pakistan have pledged their allegiance to ISIS and its chief Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Recently six top commander of once dreaded terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) alongwith its spokesman have issued a statement announcing their allegiance to the group and its chief.<\/p>\n<h2>High level meet discusses ISIS threat<\/h2>\n<p>A high-level meeting on national security chaired by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was held in the capital Islamabad yesterday to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pakistan newspaper, The News, the participants in the meeting pointed out that the local militants\u2019 efforts to ally with ISIS was not organised and coordinated at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis provided an opportunity to smash any possible ISIS foothold in the country. The failure to take solid steps in this regard would allow the TTP-ISIS nexus to organise itself,\u201d they felt and asked security agencies to act to ensure that ISIS is not able to make any foothold in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to make foothold in Pakistan\u2019s commercial capital and financial hub, Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[71425,67971,50476,62587,74232,62591,11703,74231,44685,636,23297,74230,43131,42251,74228],"class_list":["post-54954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi","tag-gulshan-e-maymar","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-isis","tag-isis-chief","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-karachi","tag-manghopir","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-prime-minister","tag-sohrab-goth","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-ttp","tag-worried"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}