Group of 5+ Group of 7 in action

Dr. Jassim Taqui

DG Al-Bab Institute for Strategic Studies

Islamabad, August 23, 2021: Following long inaction, the major Western intelligence agencies are now in action. The topic is to find ways and means to control mullah terrorism around the world.

The Group of 5 (G5) encompasses five nations that have joined together for an active role in the rapidly evolving international order. The G5 seeks to find a common solution to global challenges.

G5 includes Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.

In tandem, the Group of Seven (G7) is an inter-governmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Its members are the world’s largest IMF advanced economies and the wealthiest liberal democracies. G7is officially organized around shared values of pluralism and representative government. As of 2018, the G7 nations account for close to 60 percent of global net wealth($317 trillion), 32 to 46 percent of global gross domestic product, and 770 million people or 10 percent of the world’s population.

Most members are great powers in global affairs and can maintain mutually close economic, military and diplomatic relations.

Most probably, G5 and G7 have combined following fears that the Taliban might introduce a global Jihad which was first introduced by Jalaluddin Haqqani in 1979 as a tool to confront the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Theoretically, the Taliban can through Global Jihadism conduct incidents of terrorism in G5 and G7 countries greater in size and magnitude than those of 9/11.