#ParisAttacks Fake video by Hate Video Channel on YouTube

BACKGROUND

[On the morning of 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others in the building. After leaving, they killed a French National Police officer outside the building. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack.]

[Cricket World Cup 2015 started from the mid January 2015. As soon as the schedule was announced, Pakistani youths like from all others cricket playing nations started cheering for their team. Please see this link which is from Cricket Dot Com PK (http://schedule.cricket.com.pk/) which gives details of Cricket Schedule 2015/2016 - All International Events.]

CONTENT ANALYSIS

In the video below, which was posted on January 7^th 2015 on a “hate video blog” hosted on YouTube, which the Google search engine is displaying as:

UK - Pakistani Muslims 'celebrating' ATTACKS IN FRANCE ...

<a href="/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CDMQtwIwBGoVChMIxNemttqWyQIVCVoaCh1e4wvE&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlaC06lAe50Q&amp;usg=AFQjCNHkhDWOhl4vibfnx4HI2jIPdpp_aw&amp;sig2=j44Edt6neUb7Os95gCkO4g&amp;bvm=bv.107467506,d.d24" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','5','AFQjCNHkhDWOhl4vibfnx4HI2jIPdpp_aw','j44Edt6neUb7Os95gCkO4g','0CDMQtwIwBGoVChMIxNemttqWyQIVCVoaCh1e4wvE','','',event)" data-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laC06lAe50Q">UK - Pakistani Muslims 'celebrating' ATTACKS IN FRANCE ...</a>

Pakistani people celebrating PARIS attack in england (luton ...

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-5_ezi-2g

<a href="/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=video&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCoQtwIwAWoVChMItIPM3NuWyQIVB7QUCh2C_g7e&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djy-5_ezi-2g&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2B94zdhd8aHhGfKVa8CXd7AwFIQ&amp;sig2=TO9c86Qc7YeIZbsdGbKf7A&amp;bvm=bv.107467506,d.d24" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','2','AFQjCNH2B94zdhd8aHhGfKVa8CXd7AwFIQ','TO9c86Qc7YeIZbsdGbKf7A','0CCoQtwIwAWoVChMItIPM3NuWyQIVB7QUCh2C_g7e','','',event)" data-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-5_ezi-2g">Pakistani people celebrating PARIS attack in england (luton ...</a>

If you carefully listen to the audio and compare it to other genuine unaltered videos, the chants are “Jeetay ga… Pakistan jeetay ga” (Will win… Pakistan will win) additionally the siren like sound is a classic noise from an air horn used by cricket spectators / fans from Pakistan and sometimes from India.

CONCLUSION

The source of this video which has been intentionally tagged with fake description and optimized for Google’s search engine comes from a YouTube channel called “new to Islam” with the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9LrjZDubbjdKW5Td5WPNug

The ten months old video poster claims that Pakistan youth based in UK Tooting  / Luton are celebrating Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo from January 7 2015. It is not claiming celebrations of the recent Paris Atacks although the video has started showing up again in the search results as the search terms being used are same as the ones used for January 2015 Paris Attacks.

This channel is openly anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan and posts “stuff” which would hurt the targets directly by damaging their global reputation and / or hurt the feeling of the targeted community. In short it’s a “hate channel” hosted on YouTube and as Google owns YouTube this video and other content from this channel is accessible on the web.

Wake Up, Pakistan

Thomas R. Pickering
Working Group Chair
The Century Foundation Press • New York

The Report of The Century Foundation International Working Group on Pakistan

The time is long past for Pakistan to wake up to its present predicament and begin a serious reassessment of the fundamental policy challenges it faces. Decades of mistakes and misperceptions have compounded pernicious ideological choices to present Pakistani society with a series of ongoing crises it must address before its basic resilience is overwhelmed: a public sphere dominated by extremists, a crippled economy debilitated by corruption, and a deteriorating regional position. The Century Foundation International Working Group on Pakistan, comprised of a broad and diverse assemblage of American, Pakistani and international figures deeply concerned about the country’s future, believes it is time for Pakistan to address these problems vigorously and comprehensively, and for its international partners to assist where they can.

Read full report: Wake Up, Pakistan

TTP's breakup a cause of concern

ZoneAsia-Pk

Pakistan’s on-going war against terrorism – the final push – has so far claimed more than 910 militants in North Waziristan and decimated hundreds of militant camps. When Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched, defence analysts from across the board exhorted the government to take a hands-on approach and work with the Army to develop a multi-pronged strategy to defeat extremism, separate from terrorism, but as big a threat as the latter.

Yet the government initially appeared not only reluctant to endorse a boots-on-the-ground approach but also quickly became sucked into a political imbroglio that shifted the entire country’s attention away from North Waziristan and the internally displaced persons in Bannu, to the Capital. Efforts to engage all state institutions in a political drama only served to exacerbate the government’s own position and paved the path for deep-state to raise eyebrows over the government’s legitimacy.

In the backdrop of the on-going military operation, a national political crisis, regional politics immersed in Machiavellian histrionics and the international security situation held hostage by the Islamic State, a breakaway faction of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan announced itself as the true vanguard that would bring Shariah to Pakistan.

Many quarters have felt that the formation of Jamatul Ahrar signifies a victory of sorts – Pakistan’s largest militant threat developing defections from within shows weakness and a dissonance that can allow the Army and government to end the TTP question once and for all. Fragmentation can only mean smaller weaker targets, easy to take out. The first sign of defeat for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was when it broke into factions, maybe the stratagems that ended Sri Lanka’s 30-year-old war could also put an end to militancy in Pakistan.

However, this needs to be examined in a larger context and it might just be too soon to bring out the champagne.

The TTP claims a certain a ideology. Their’s is a war to reassert orthodox Islamic values in their own vein of interpretation. The seed of war here stems not from social injustice, a sense of deprivation or against foreign occupation – the seed is an idea. When the government decided to hold talks with the TTP, there was an outcry from within TTP structures that believed that there could no compromise on ideas – that would be compromising divine mandate.

It was in the midst of these talks that dissenting groups from within the TTP held attacks under the banner of Ahrarul Hind to jeapordise negotiations. The bombing of a district sessions court in Islamabad and the decapitation of Pakistan Army soldiers was their handiwork. Brutal at best, one could compare their line of ideology and strategy with the IS. The only difference was that all factions claimed allegiance to Mullah Omar, head of the Afghan Taliban under the Al-Qaeda umbrella.

The Jamat, with all the media-savyness of former TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, claims the support of 70 to 80 TTP commanders. In an hour and a half long video, Maulana Qasim Khorasani (former TTP commander of Mohmand Agency chapter and inline to succeed Hekimullah Mehsud) announces that the TTP has fallen prey to self-seeking individuals (cue Mullah Fazalullah and all the commanders who pushed for talks). Their war is to build a global Caliphate and they will start from Pakistan. The group demonstrates no qualms about violence, they justify it through religion.

Ehsan, in a statement released last week, mentioned that while they were allied with the Afghan Taliban, the IS provided a good example as to how they planned to operate.

This should not serve to alleviate fears regarding militancy in Pakistan, this should serve to alarm. The group is headed by emir Maulana Qasim Khorasani, and Ihsan is its spokesman. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar’s shura, or executive council, includes: Omar Khalid al Khorasani, the powerful commander from Mohmand; Mansoor Nazim Shura and Maulana Haidar from Arakzai; Maulana Adbullah from Bajaur; Qari Ismail from Khyber; Qari Shakil Haqqani from Charsadda; Mufti Misbah from Peshawar; and Maulana Yasin from Swat. The Jamat includes Taliban factions from the tribal agencies of Mohmand, Bajaur, Khyber, and Arakzai, and the districts of Charsadda, Peshawar, and Swat.

By providing these groups an alternative to peace talks, we see the emergence of a new umbrella organisation, seemingly as big as the TTP if not bigger (if Ehsan is to be believed). The group claims that it will stop at nothing to achieve it’s goal of Islamic dominance in the world and they were willing to sacrifice for it.

This leaves the government with no excuse. The Pakistan National Security Council needs to come into action and develop a strategy to deal with new emerging threats. What with the announcement of an Al-Qaeda wing in India, these threats cannot be taken lightly. In a region where physical borders are more than just porous, collective action by the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India is the need of the hour. There is no question of complacency here.