ISIS operatives are said to be infiltrating universities and Islamic schools in major cities
across Pakistan as well as usurping territory once held by al-Qaeda and
the Taliban in lawless tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
Extremist
fighters allied to the Islamist group have claimed hundreds of lives in
the Muslim country and neighbouring territories in recent months,
including links to a suicide attack on a Christian neighbourhood in
Lahore which left 72 dead.
Support
for the fanatical Islamist cult appears to run deeper than first
thought in Pakistani society, with reports of government officials
secretly working for ISIS as well as ordinary families fleeing for
jihadi heartlands in Syria.
An investigation by
Pakistani security officials last year found a "small cabal of
government officials" who had been "collecting information for ISIS" in
support of "its holy war on the West"
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