On the eve of the visit to the United States of Pakistan's most powerful man, army chief Raheel Sharif, the Pakistani military has fashioned a new narrative to sell to Washington in order to return to its good books and extract continued flow of military supplies and civilian aid. It is the imminent threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sweeping into the nuclear-armed country that is already under siege from al-Qaida, although the alternative narrative suggests it is complicit in sheltering al-Qaida and an assortment of extremist-terrorist organizations to further its strategic and policy objectives.
One of those of objectives is to obtain continued US support in the form of aid and military hardware, so ahead of the army strongman's visit starting this weekend, the first by the country's military supremo in four years, Pakistani media is replete with stories of ISIS surfacing in the country in the form of flags, pamphlets, and wall-chalking. Amid some rolling of the eyes in Washington, one newspaper reported this week that signs of local support for the dreaded Islamic State have surfaced in various parts of Pakistan, including graffiti that welcomed the head of Syrian Daish Group Abu Bakkar Al Bagdadi.
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