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BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 6
A sensational report from Pakistan: Jihadis will not hesitate to revolt against the present regime led by Gen. Parvez Musharraf if it continued to implement Washington's policy against them.
The report has poured in at a time when there are dissonant voices within Pakistan military establishment which say that the permanence of the policy shift towards jihadis is not assured. More importantly, jihadi outfits and elemnts based in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have triggered by far the most significant development with the announcement to return to past practices in Jammu and Kashmir.
If a set of intelligence inputs were to be believed, breakaway elements of five banned fundamentalist and terrorist outfits are planning a viollent drive to destablize the Musharraf regime. Indications of such a drive became available after the questioning of dozens of suspected religious individuals who were arrested recently. Islasmabad has already proscribed the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Tehrik-e-Jafferiah and Tehrik Nifaz- e-Shariat-e-Mohammedi.
Gen Musharraf bad earlier banned the Harket-ul- Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. According to intelligence inputs, those questioned had disclosed that underground factions of their groups were working together and separately to destabilize the ''pro-American government'' in Pakistan. A document from Washington has made a pointed reference to the dilemma Gen. Musharraf finds himself in following his ''US-dictated formula'' against fundamentalists.
The document says that when assessing Gen. Musharraf''s predicament, many Pakistanis and foreign diplomats ''solembly mention'' Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian leader, who was cut down by opponents of his policy of making peace with Israel. In an obvious reference to Pakistan''s Islamic militants, the document points out: ''There are people out in Pakistan who will like to see Gen Musharraf dead''.
The document has forecast that there will be ''more terrorist acts in Pakistan". The document has quoted a retired three-star General of Pak military, Kamal Matinuddin, as saying: ''There are religious elements who are not happy with Gen Musharraf and his support to the Americans and they will like to create a wedge between the Pak government and the United States''.
Pakistan's Ministry of Interior has been reported to have confirmed that more than 5,000 religiously motivated Islamic rebels, trained in guerrilla warfare, are already registered with the five core Sunni militant organisations in Pakistan. While waving a white flag to the religio-political groups, it seems that the Pakistan government has also extended an alive branch to the jihadi organisations.'
This kind of tactic has become an open secret following the circulation of reports across Pakistan and PoK that as no criminal charges have been levelled against several top jihadis, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed supremo, Maulana Masood Azhar, and the Lashkar-e-Toiba's espirt de corps, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, they are not going to be placed under detention.
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