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| Pipe dream: annexing Kashmir in six months | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, Aug 8: While India harps on friendly relations with the neighbor and claims progress on peace process, a Pakistani Parliamentarian and responsible functionary of the Musharraf regime has called for launching Jehad against India to annex Kashmir in six months.
Interestingly, when the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Major (retired) Tanvir Hussain Syed, claimed that through jihad, Pakistan could acquire Kashmir in six months, he was speaking in the Parliament and a majority of the members agreed to what he said. A formal reaction from India was yet to be seen till filing this story.
Syed called for sending "jihadis" to Kashmir , because Pakistan would never be able to get Kashmir through negotiations. He stressed the need for announcing a 'jihad' against India and the US during a debate on Pakistan's foreign policy with a special focus on Pak-US relations. India and US wanted to take control of Kashmir to keep a check on China , said.
Syed also asked the government to recognise the Taliban as a force in Afghanistan . "Be it the mountains of Waziristan, Kashmir or the land of Punjab, there should be only one slogan 'Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad, Al-Jihad'," he said.
This statement comes in the wake of India's confidence that all is going well with Pakistan and the peace process was intact. Recently, the National Security Advisor MK Narayanan had said that peace process with Pakistan is in progress and Musharraf is the best man to deal with.
Minister of State for Environment Malik Amin Aslam expressed concern over the India-US nuclear deal, and said that Pakistan's soldiers were dying and the US was asking us to "do more."
He said that the US presidential candidates by threatening attacks on Pakistan and Islam's holy places were actually committing terrorism and should be disqualified from contesting the election.
M.P. Bhandara, a minority community legislator, also belonging to the PML, called for renewing contact with Mullah Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, in order to resolve the ongoing crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Bhandara proposed that Pakistan should bring the US, NATO, Western powers and Mullah Omar to the negotiating table to resolve the Afghan issue, which was also affecting Pakistan .
"India will not give freedom to the Kashmiris through dialogue so we have to wage a jihad and our Mujahideen will secure the freedom of Kashmir within six months," media reported today, quoting Hussain as saying.
Stressing that the Pakistani government should recognise the Taliban, the ruling party legislator said, "Taliban did not have any enmity with Pakistan but only with the United States."
He also asked the government to give a shut-up call to the US over its repeated threats to bomb suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in the Islamic nation.
"The government should counter the 'Pressler-type Bill' by allowing Jihad. The aid that forces us to mistreat our own people should be spewed out," he said, while speaking in the National Assembly yesterday during a debate on Pakistan's foreign policy.
The stunning speech of Hussain got a positive response from the members of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), particularly when he praised the Taliban.
Hussain sprang a surprise early this year by admitting his links with militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toyaba on the floor of National Assembly while taking part in a similar debate.
Yesterday, he blamed the CIA for the recent killings of Chinese in Pakistan in order to harm the cordial relations between Islamabad and Beijing.
Urging the government to renounce its "love affair" with America , he said that instead "we should improve our relations with Iran, China and Russia as the United States will not give us anything except threats".
"Our foreign policy must be based on Quran and Sunnah," he said, adding Syed Hasan Nasrullah of Hizbullah in Lebanon had inflicted a defeat on Israel and Pakistan should take a lesson from him.
The foreign policy of the government came under fire in the National Assembly with special reference to the relations with the US in view of the anti-Pakistan statements.
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