The Al-Qaeda terrorist group leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri broadcasted on Wednesday the creation of a new wing of his militant group in India.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri proclaimed in a 55-minut video that was posted online the creation of a new wing of the organization in South Asia specifically India. The formation of the Indian branch would spread Islamic dominion and raise jihad's flag across the subcontinent.
As the Indian branch of the terrorist group was announced, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri also renewed a venerable pledge of allegiance to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in an ostensible rebuff to the Islamic State armed group thought-provoking Al-Qaeda for governance of provisional Islamist militancy.
The new Indian wing of Al-Qaeda will also boost the group's claim to be the world's prime jihadists. Ayman Al-Zawahiri described the creation as eager notifications for the Muslims in Burma, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Kashmir.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri also stated that the formation will liberate Muslims from prejudice and tyranny and would rescind the artificial borders separating the region's Muslim populace. The terrorist group has wings in North Africa (al-Qaeda in the Maghreb), Yemen (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and a network of conglomerated legionnaires from Somalia to Syria to the rugged tribal areas of Pakistan.
The counterterrorism experts say that Al-Qaeda's proclamation is another effort of the frazzled ageing leaders to compete with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, which is successfully enlisting young followers from across the world to join its conflict in the Middle East.
The proclamation of Al-Qaeda's new wing could pose a challenge to Narendra Modi, India's new prime minister, as well as an ancillary repudiation of the Islamic State; and an effort to recapture the spotlight for his group and to feat prevailing unrest in Myanmar and Kashmir. However, the group's advances seemed unwelcome. The two terrorist groups were formerly allies but fell out over ISIS militants' cruelty and enlargement into Syria last year.
On the same day as Al-Qaeda announced the formation of its new wing in South Asia, the Pakistan Taliban restated in a statement that its adherence to the Afghan Taliban and its leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar.
Centuries of governance by medieval Muslim aggressors drove a split-up between Hindus and Muslims causing tensions and violent partitions amongst them. The Al-Qaeda's new wing creation aims for pan-Islamic unity.
