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| "Armed forces capable of handling Al Qaeda threats" | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 15: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley with Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah.Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said that Indian forces are capable of handling any threat of Al Qaeda in Jammu and Kashmir.
In a press conference in SKICC Srinagar, when Arun Jaitley was asked about the news reports of video in which Al Qaeda has asked for jehad against India in Kashmir said that we have to watch the situation how it develops. There is an element of caution and we are accessing the situation after the US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and I am sure that our armed forces are capable of handling threats."
Senior militants from Al Qaeda's central command have released a video calling on Muslims in the Himalayan region of Kashmir to follow the example of "brothers" in Syria and Iraq and wage a violent jihad against Indian authorities, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
The video, which cites the "new Afghanistan being created in Syria" as inspiration, is the first to specifically target Kashmir.
Entitled "War should continue, message to the Muslims of Kashmir", the video was uploaded in recent days to a website where statements by other leaders of Al Qaeda and its affiliates have been released in the past.
It is unclear when the video was made, although its production apparently preceded the advances made by the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) in Iraq this week. However, the timing of its release will underline the impression that senior Al Qaeda leaders based in Pakistan, who have suffered heavy losses in recent years, are increasingly marginal to the global jihadi movement, the report said.
Led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born veteran militant who took over after the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the group has made increasing efforts in recent years to mobilise the nearly half a billion Muslims who live in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Zawahiri released a set of strategic guidelines last year that mentioned Kashmir. Last July, a cleric who has been linked to Al Qaeda issued a video statement that reprimanded Indian Muslims for their supposed lack of interest in "global jihad".
The campaign does not appear to have had much success beyond Pakistan, where the serious threat posed by jihadi violence was underlined by a major attack on the international airport in Karachi, the southern port city and commercial capital, last week. |
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