Re: JI to PTI – ‘Good looking Jamaat-e-Islami’
I highlighted two ideas, not fundamental ideology. 1. Resistance to American presence in Pakistan. 2. Anti-Corruption. PTI and JI agree on both.
If you connect JI to religious extremism, you also need to connect MQM and PPP to militancy as well. The difference is only the use of religion v/s ethnicity or linguistic divide to foster terrorism.
I didn’t want to go into JI’s electoral success thing. The issue is that their followers do not belong to one ethnicity, dialect speaking, tribe, caste or geographical group. They are very much diverse and Pakistani politics is based on one’s caste, language, family and locality.
As far as the relationship of JI with militancy is concerned, I believe JUI has more closer relationship with taleban as compared to JI. And till recently they were sitting in the ‘moderate government’ ruling us at present.