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| Sharief's claim not harbouring militants falsified | | Open cry of Jehad by Kashmiri militant groups in a Rawalpindi meeting | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Apr 7
News Analysis
Ironically enough on the very day the interview given by former Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief, whose party, Pakistan Muslim League (N) is a major coalition partner in the new government installed in that country, to the TV channel, Aaj Tak's Seedhi Baat was telecast, in which he strongly refuted the allegations by the Indian Home Ministry that terrorist camps against India were still operating in Pakistan and PoK, leaders of several militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir met in Rawalpindi city at a little distance of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad.
Although Nawaz Sharief had denied that Pakistan was harbouring militant outfits and claimed that there were no militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir or other parts of India from Pakistan, the meeting organized by the Pakistani based Al-Badr Muzahidden in a mosque in the Garrison city of Rawalpindi was redressed by a top Kashmiri militant, an Indian national, Sayeed Salah-ud-Din, who has been headquartered in PoK for last about 20 years and is indulging in terrorist activities in Kashmir. The other leaders who addressed a 500 strong gathering of terrorists, indulging in subversive activities and violent strikes in Jammu and Kashmir included Al-Badr Chief Bakht Zameen Khan and the leaders of Lashker-e-Toiba Hizbi Islami Kashmir and other Jehadi groups.
These militant leaders vowed to continue their "Jehad" in J&K and pledged that the same will continue till J&K is liberated from the Indian occupation. Salah-ud-Din is also reported to have remarked in the meeting that the continuation of the Jehad in Kashmir is linked with the survival of Pakistan. He told the gathering that they will continue operating in Jammu and Kashmir as long as even a single Indian soldier is deployed in the state. Giving a communal colouring to their violent activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India, Salah-ud-Din stated "We in this gathering want to convey a message to Kashmiri Muslims that they are not alone. We are with them. We will not accept Indian hegemony till the last drop of our blood." The crowd shouted slogans like "Our way of life Jehad—Jehad, Allah is great".
Holding of a meeting by the Islamic Jehadis operating against India, mainly in Indian part of Jammu and Kashmir, in the Garrison city of Rawalpindi and inflammatory speeches made by the leaders of militants under the very nose of Pakistani authorities, in the city having military headquarters of the country, is ominous and goes against the spirit of new bonhomie between India and Pakistan and the public stand taken by the new Pak ruling leaders that they stand for strengthening friendship and understanding with India and to resolve all the issues and disputes between the two countries through peaceful negotiations and dialogues, ruling out any possibility of war between the two democratic countries.
If the new Pak rulers are really serious and sincere in their assertions of adopting non violent means to settle the problems concerning the two countries, they are expected to take a serious note of the happenings in their country and anti India hysteria being built fresh in that country, with open calls of "Jehad" in Kashmir. If the previous government in Pakistan led by President Parvez Musharraf, could take head on and launch an operation against the Islamic militants, calling shots against Pakistan and America, from within the Lal Maszid in the heart of Lahore city, why the new rulers in that country, who profess adopting a path of reconciliation with India, cannot take similar action against these sets of Jehadis who are operating against India from that country? Alternatively it indicates that the new Pak government has no control over the army in that country and the country's secret intelligence agency, ISI which have been providing protection and support to these Jehadis. |
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