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| We Can Liberate Kashmir In 6 Months" vHafiz for Muslim rule in India, says Riedel | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Rustam
JAMMU, Apr 6: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) chief Hafiz Saeed's most cherished goal is "destruction of India," said United States (US) counter-terrorism expert Bruce Riedel only the other day maintaining that the "Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder is an al Qaeda ally who was in close touch with Osama bin Laden until his death in May 2011". Bruce Riedel is a former CIA officer and presently a Senior Fellow in the Seban Center at Brookings Institute, Washington.
It would be only desirable to reproduce the story which is based on the revelations made by Bruce Riedel. The story reads like this: "Saeed, a very public figure in Pakistan and admired by its military, advocates a truly extreme vision: the restoration of the Mughal empire and the destruction of India,' America's decision to announce a bounty of $10 million on Saeed would further deteriorate its relationship with Pakistan, he wrote in 'The Daily Beast'. Saeed, he said, stayed in close contact with bin Laden until his death in May 2011 in a covert US raid, according to the material found in the al-Qaeda leader's" hide out.
"Saeed openly mourned bin Laden in a bitter eulogy the Friday after the SEALs delivered justice to bin Laden,' wrote Riedel, who was among the three members appointed by US President Barack Obama to review and formulate a new Af-Pak policy for the administration. Riedel said Saeed's ambitions are not limited to Kashmir alone. It is destruction of India. LeT's ideology as laid out by Saeed goes far beyond recovering the Muslim parts of Kashmir for Pakistan. He seeks the creation of a Muslim caliphate over the entire subcontinent. The LeT's role model is the old Mughal empire of the 17th and 18th centuries that dominated most of the subcontinent with a Muslim minority ruling the Hindu majority,' he wrote".
The story further reads: "The vision of Saeed and his fellow leaders of LeT requires the literal destruction of India as a state. Saeed announced this goal in a speech in 1999 after the short Kargil war with India, saying, 'today I announce the break-up of India, Inshallah (God willing). We will not rest until the whole of India is dissolved into Pakistan', Riedel wrote. One LeT newspaper captured the spirit of its ideology with this passage, 'Kashmir can be liberated in six months. Within a couple of years, the rest of the territories of India could be conquered as well, and we can regain our lost glory. We can bring back the era of Mughal rule. We can once again subjugate the Hindus like our forefathers. As the US and India grow closer, the LeT increasingly sees America as its enemy,' Riedel wrote".
The story does not end here. It goes on to say: "Saeed and the LeT have also benefited for years from the patronage of the Pakistani army and ISI. He is a frequent guest at army functions and his headquarters near Lahore is guarded by nearby ISI offices. Saeed's current campaign to stop the drones, to keep NATO supply lines to Afghanistan via Karachi closed and to sever US -Pakistan relations would not be possible without the support of the ISI,' he (Riedel) said. By putting a bounty on his head now, the Obama administration has not only raised the ante with LeT, it has considerably raised the ante with its patrons and protectors in the Pakistani army. Separately, an investigative US media website said that the announcement of $10 million bounty on Saeed's head shows the Obama administration has decided to take a hard line with Islamabad. The Pro-Publica, which has done a series of investigative stories on the Mumbai terror attacks and David Coleman Headley, said that Saeed has a close relationship with ISI".
The story based on what Riedel wrote on Saeed and which was released from Washington further reads: "He (Saeed) is very close to ISI,' Headley said of Saeed. 'He is well protected', it said in its latest article following the announcement made by the (US) State Department. It said the announcements show how much US-Pakistani relations have deteriorated as the Obama administration has taken a harder line with Islamabad. 'Saeed is a powerful public figure in Pakistan and has held mass rallies in recent months in which he denounced the West and India,' it said".
One can only hope that our policy-planners in New Delhi would take each and every revelation that Riedel made very seriously and do all that they could to defeat the evil designs of Pakistan. We are not afraid of Pakistan. Nor are we afraid of what the likes of Hafiz Saeed say. We are only afraid of those managing relations with the unscrupulous Pakistan. It is time for them to work in tandem with those in the West who have upped their ante against Pakistan and decided to eliminate the dreaded terrorists and fanatics like Saeed. |
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