The largest of Pakistan’s provinces, Balochistan is by most measures a mess, filled with ethnic separatist militant factions as well as Sunni Islamist groups constantly attacking the region’s Shi’ite minority.
For ISIS, it seems like a potential gold mine, with myriad militant factions to infiltrate and a large population of disaffected Sunnis to recruit from.
That’s why ISIS says it is setting up its South Asian base of operations in Balochistan, hoping it can attract veteran militants as well as members of the Afghan Taliban, some of which have been in Quetta since the US occupation of Afghanistan began.
Between the Baloch separatists, the anti-Shi’ites, the Islamist groups built to attack Indian forces in Kashmir, and the Afghan holdouts, there’s a wide variety of recruits to choose from, and ISIS has shown a remarkable allure for jihadi militants the world over. With Pakistan already struggling with the Balochistan unrest that’s already in place, ISIS could quickly spiral out of their control.
Well, since the Pakistani government is such a great partner in the GWOT, they can take care of it, right? I mean with all the money the US taxpayers have donated to them for the "good fight" they should be able to just rush down there and snatch these ISIS guys right off the street. After all, the USG doesn't waste any of the American taxpayer tithe to the war gods.
Saudi-funded madrassas over the last few decades went a long way towards indoctrination of desperately poor Pakistani kids with Salafi and Wahhabi Islam.
The "custodians" of Islam's most holy sites…do they see or care what they have done, in coordination with making "Israel's enemies our enemies", to the image of their religion to people all over the world?