Lashkar: Indian Agencies Behind Lahore Attacks

Kashmiri militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba rejected media reports in India that it was involved in an attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket squad in Lahore.

“These media reports are false, incorrect and baseless,” Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said. He was speaking by telephone from Srinagar from an undisclosed location.

“The attack on Sri Lanka’s team was an attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty and Kashmiri militants could never even think of that (such an attack),” Ghaznavi said.

LeT, which has been fighting for freedom from New Delhi’s rule in Indian-occupied Kashmir, blamed Indian security agencies for the Lahore attack.

“The attack is the handiwork of Indian agencies to defame Pakistan and bring instability to the country,” Ghaznavi said.

Lashkar-e-Taiba has often been blamed by India for terrorist acts within India. Most of these acts have subsequently been proved to have been carried out by Indian based Hindu extremist groups with support from serving Indian army officers.

Lashkar-e-Taiba has never been implicated in any terrorist activities on Pakistani soil and has a strict policy in this regard. They have in fact recently come under fire and recieved threats from CIA backed terrorist Baitullah Mehsud.

Mehsud’s ‘Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’ (TTP) threatened attacking members of Lashkar-e-Taiba by pointing out that they only fight against Indian rule in Kashmir and do not support TTP’s version of ‘Jihad’ against Pakistani citizens.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.

“I cannot rule out (the involvement of a) foreign hand in the incident,” Malik told reporters in Lahore.

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US: India has turned into a hub for supply of funds to terrorists

NEW YORK: The US has said that India has turned into a hub for supply of funds to terrorists due to its network of ‘Hundi’ and ‘Hawala’ system of funds remittances.

US State Office report available here said this. US report quoting Reserve Bank of India said that an amount of $42.60 billion was remitted to India during 2007-2008. Analysts said that during the same period an amount in the range of $13-17 billion were remitted through Hawala Market, a parallel system of the legal one.

Report said that India on priority should cooperate in those international efforts aiming at making the parallel systems of remittances transparent in view of the Hawala Market directly linked to the supply of funds to the terrorists.

US State Office report said that India should take up effective law making for combating money laundering and halting the supply of funds to terrorists. India has been asked in the report to work for becoming a full member of inter-governmental organization, Financial Action Task Force, which formulates policies for this purpose.

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India: For Hindus Only

The dual linkage of young Indian officers with both military and Hindu fascist organizations has caused a cancer to the military establishment in India. It has brought elements into Indian military who have their own goals which do not conform well with military discipline. An army with irrepressible elements is as dangerous to any country as its real enemy’s army can be or even more. Officers like Gen (R) Premnath Hoon joined Indian army decades ago and served at different posts all the way to rank of General before he retired. What is revealing that he was one of the founding fathers of military wing of Shiv Sena. This also proves that either before joining or during his service in military he established links with Shiv Sena but what is more important is that he was not alone in this venture but there was active support from Indian military through his contacts he made during service like Colonel Jayant Chitale who was also in charge in military selection center at Pune for many years.

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Indian Muslims: Second Class Citizens

Just outside the Nawab Masjid mosque in Bhindi Bazaar, in Mumbai, worshippers have laid long strips of blue plastic as temporary prayer mats. Among the faithful is Gulzar Azmi, who spends much of his time defending some of the terrorism-case suspects who he says have been framed by the police. And he insists the system is still biased against Muslims.

“When a Muslim sets off a firework, even then they say it’s a bomb,” Mr Azmi complains.

“The government says one thing and does another… they pretty much treat Indian Muslims like second-class citizens. When a Hindu commits a crime they get charged with lesser offences. It’s the opposite for Muslims,” he says.

“It was only in September last year that the government finally accepted that Hindus are also responsible for bomb attacks,” he concludes. “Before that they’d never acknowledged that it could happen.”

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Shaheed Hemant Karkare Road, Malegaon

The residents of Malegaon have urged the government of Maharashtra to name the road on which the September 29 blast took place as ‘Shaheed Hemant Karkare Road’ after former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, who was killed in the November 26 Mumbai terror attack.

As chief of Maharashtra ATS, Karkare was probing the 2008 blast where a bomb planted in a motorcycle left outside Abdul Ansari’s office killed six persons on September 29. Residents of this bereaved town, 285 km northeast of Mumbai, are now pushing for the 500-metre stretch to be named after Karkare. Karkare’s killing is said to be a targeted assassination meant to stifle the uncomfortable revelations of the blast probe that echoes across a cross-section of over four lakh Muslims who make up 70 per cent of the residents of this textile town.

Magazine endorses Antulay’s stance on Karkare

ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: India’s Minority Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay, who has been criticised by the right-wing Hindu leaders for seeking an inquiry into the murder of Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare, has won endorsement for his stance, says a report.

The New Delhi-based Radiance weekly said in its editorial “Antulay is right: Investigate Karkare’s murder” that “most of the TV channels played on sentiments and are not concerned with truth.”

The curious case of Karkare, Salaskar and Kaamte

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After a long time, AR Antulay has spoken, and he has shaken the Mumbai Police version of the 26th November terror attack.

If there is a question mark over who sent Karkare literally to his death, and this is what the Minority Affairs Minister essentially said, than there is a question mark about Kasab’s statement that Ismail and he killed Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar and Ashok Kaamte — which means there is a question mark over the entire Police version of the 26th November attack as such.

Push Our Opinion Makers To Get Tough

In his article, India’s hysterical response to Mumbai carnage, published by PakistanThinkTank.org, Brig. Gen.Asif Haroon Raja (Retd.) explains how a few media commentators and outlets filled the void created by the current Pakistani government in responding to Indian arrogance. We want to add to this list. If you are in contact with Pakistani politicians, journalists, and television news executives/anchors/hosts, and radio hosts, please ask them to stop being apologetic, see the Indian arrogance for what it is, and pressure our government to show some spine:

“Uncalled for belligerence was provocative and sickening but it is to the credit of Pakistani leaders and media that the maddening jibes were absorbed coolly. Sanity prevailed throughout the heightened crisis period and none got provoked to counter the ever increasing antagonism. It was only when Indian hawks persisted with their truculence that one to two media channels decided to launch a small counter stroke which flabbergasted the Indians. The few brave ones were Zaid Hamid, Ahmed Quraishi, Mubasher Luqman, Shireen Mazari, Lt Gen Hameed Gul, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leading PML-N leaders and some others.

While Pakistan leaders are eager to ease tensions and revert to peaceful co-existence policy envisaged in Composite Dialogue, Indian leaders influenced by the hawks within establishment, military and religious cadres are in no mood to reciprocate. They are finding excuses to maximise pressure and put Pakistan in the dock. Karachi riots were triggered to add to the pressure. The Indian air force has been put on high alert and Pakistan’s air space violated at two points on night of 13 December to test the response of Pakistan. A message was given that if the nominated accused were not handed over it would hit suspected targets like Muredke, HQ of Jamaat-ud Daawa headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, on the pattern of US drone attacks.”

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Freedom of Expression Under Attack in India

Dan Qayyum | PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com

Amaresh Misra explains on Geo TV’s ‘Crisis Cell’ how some Politicians with links to Sangh Parivar, as well as pro US/Israel politicians from the Congress Party are using India’s English Language media (CNN IBN, NDTV) to suppress any voice that questions the official (and the media’s) version of what went on in Mumbai.

Some Marathi and Urdu newspapers had reported eyewitness accounts contradicting the official story in the days following the attacks – however those stories were drowned out by campaign against Pakistan led by the NDTV and CNN-IBN.

Union Minorities Affairs Minister A R Antulay who called for an investigation into Hemant Karkare’s assasination, has been forced to resign, after daring to question the official story.

People like Arundhati Roy and Amaresh Misra just two out of many patriotic Indians who can see the US gameplan and prefer their country to stand in the face of US imperialism rather than turn into their client state and a junior ally. They want peaceful and friendly relations with Pakistan and at the same time believe that the two neighbours should work together to eradicate terrorism, poverty, and other key issues affecting the people.

These people need to be given a voice.

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Mumbai: The Police Story Stands Shattered

Today, 18th December 2008, is a historic day. It marks the beginning of a process wherein my `theory’ about the Mumbai attack might just turn out to be true. But there is no joy. There is just an emptiness, a sadness at Karkare’s death and the killing of hundreds of innocents by the Hindutva-Mossad-CIA combine and International/Israeli mercenaries.

The Minorities Affairs Minister AR Antulay was once a firebrand leader. But he has been quiet for long–too long; today he spoke and questioned directly Karkare’s killing in the Parliament. Antulay is a cabinet Minister; he is not known to speak out of line. Despite Abhishek Singhvi’s remark distancing the Congress from what Antulay said, the latter, it seems, definitely has the sanction of the Congress High Command at some level. Anyone supposing something else is deluding himself/herself.

Read Full Article | Amaresh Misra

Who Grins While Pakistan Burns?

A sinister game is being played here that is reaffirmed as Delhi’s claims were fully endorsed by the United States and Britain. A carefully orchestrated and well formulated strategy is practised to shape the international opinion regarding Pakistan. Ignoble mention of Pakistani nukes, defamatory statements regarding Pakistan army and her premier spy agency ISI and declaration of Pakistan as the biggest threat to the world security are just a few examples of how well the script written in Washington DC is being executed.

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We’re not that alone, actually.

Times of India | West Asia may not take the wind out of the sails of India’s diplomatic campaign against Pakistan, but it is certainly not being of any help either. In fact, if media reports are any indication, several countries in the region are getting more and more apprehensive about India’s conduct in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks.

What may also worry India is the growing perception that Pakistan itself is the victim of the crisis and that India is on its way to joining the so-called unholy nexus comprising the US, UK and Israel. It wouldn’t be wrong to state, going by the popular mood, that most of the countries have not just fallen for Pakistan’s `babe in the woods’ appearance but have also been critical of India’s stand vis-a-vis its proximity to the US.

Saudi Arabia and Iran are two countries where the media seems to have already made up its mind that India has joined hands with the US and Israel. “The Indian brother may have already given the Americans a mandate to launch wars in the Indian subcontinent, whose management will be India’s responsibility, since it is possessed by the same `vengeance obsession’ that struck the Americans in 2001,” said the influential Saudi daily Al Hayat in a recent editorial.

The media in Iran too seems to have taken a position diametrically opposite to India’s stated stand. President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, of course, had said immediately after the attacks that it might have been the handiwork of people from outside the region. Iranian newspaper Kayhan, in fact, has gone to the extent of suggesting that the attacks were staged together by India, Israel, US and UK.

The media has also expressed resentment against attempts by the US to draw parallels between Mumbai and 9/11. “If there is a connection between the Mumbai attacks and those of September 11, it is to be found in the American response. Seven months after planes flew into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Rice described those tragic events as `an enormous opportunity’ to `create a new balance of power’. Washington now sees a similar opportunity arising from the carnage in India to pursue its interests in South Asia,” said Islamic Republic New Agency which is run by the Iran government.

Sadly for India, there have been few editorials, if any, laying the blame on Pakistan for the attacks. On the contrary, many have underlying sympathy for Pakistan. “Terrorism also threatens Pakistan’s very existence, and directly or indirectly harms its sovereignty over its territory, every time the US attacks what Washington claims is a `terrorist’ target within Pakistan. India is furious while Pakistan, already in an extremely complex economic predicament, definitely needs no more crises to add to its existing ones,” stated Saudi’s Al Madina in an editorial.

West Asia is another dampener for India after China where People’s Daily, the government’s official mouthpiece, had described the Mumbai attacks as the handiwork of Hindus. The report had claimed that the terrorists were wearing a sacred thread around their wrists and this proved that they were Hindus.

Hezbollah in Lebanon had earlier warned India against joining the Americans and Israelis. The organisation has blamed Takfiri sect of Sunni Muslims for the attack. Nevertheless, it went on to state that India’s stand should be independent of “the hegemony of the arrogant”. “We have noted that these kinds of attacks that struck India are often a prelude to US security and military interference that confiscates the sovereignty of states at the pretext of fighting terrorism. These attacks will be an opportunity for the US administration to blackmail both Pakistan and India and infringe on their sovereignty,” it said in an official statement.

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Mumbai: Murky Piece Of A Tangled Web

Terrell E. Arnold | Rense.com

Why it took so long to contain this attack of only ten shooters will remain a serious question, but the terrorists, only one of whom was taken alive, were obviously well prepared. They separated, attacked at least five separate sites, knew their way around the places they assaulted, and in some degree were aided by the early unwillingness of police to shoot back. Moreover, the terrorists apparently came prepared for the long haul with ample supplies of ammunition and bags of sliced almonds to stave off hunger. In that respect they did not behave like martyrs, although they certainly had reason to expect death. But the puzzles they left behind are certainly much larger than life.

The official Indian narrative, at least as of now, is that the terrorists were members of a Pakistani group called Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). That group is usually associated with the half-century old Indo-Pak struggle for Jammu and Kashmir, and it reportedly has a suicide group called the fidayeen. However, the principle link of the Mumbai attacks to the LeT is the confession of the surviving member of the group of ten. That statement appears to have been obtained after several hours of interrogation by Indian authorities who have no qualms about torture, and therefore the smooth and complete story that emerged could be as much if not more a matter of what he was led to say rather than what he confessed. We are unlikely to know.

Pakistani authorities have not bought the story, and they have asked for proof. Meanwhile, they have rounded up a number of LeT members, but they have refused an Indian request to extradite the Let members to India. The LeT prisoners, say Pakistani authorities, will be dealt with under Pakistani law.

There are many loose ends. Continue Reading…

Al-Da’awa: India Should Hand Over Hindu Terrorists To Pakistan

This is what most Pakistanis hoped to hear from their political leaders. But they have proven once again that they love their foreign houses and bank accounts more than the homeland. With all their empty arrogance, not a single Pakistani official dared make a single bold statement against the barrage of Indian B.S.

When people like Ahmed Mukhtar, the defense minister, and Khursheed Shah, another PPP minister, were sheepishly justifying their government’s weak responses to American and Indian arrogance, it was the Pakistan Air Force Chief who came out to contradict them. These politicians were exposed for who they are. This also exposes the unworkable Pakistani democracy that always brings to power the worst of the worst.

Unlike these ‘leaders’, Jamaat al Daawah is made up of honorable men. We might disagree with some of their ideas but not with their intentions. Facing belligerent Indian statements, the Pakistani charity group, Jama’at al Da’awah, has made a demand for the extradition of Indian Hindu terror suspects involved in killing Pakistanis on Indian soil, as they did when they burned Pakistanis alive in Samjota Express, the so-called ‘friendship’ train.

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Dec 5, 2008 | Dan Qayyum | PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com

New Delhi, Feb 19 2007: Wahid Khan had come to the Old Delhi Railway Station here last night to see off his relatives who were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage.

Shock and disbelief writ large on his face, Khan, a resident of adjoining Ghaziabad, was back at the station this morning frantically looking for information about his relatives as news came in of twin explosions on the Samjhauta Express. Khan’s 70-year-old mother, brother Tariqat (25) and friend Isteghar were on the train.

“They were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage function. They were so happy to be able to go to Pakistan. I am just hoping somebody tells me they are safe and sound,” he said.

Sixty-eight-year-old Mohammad Ali came to the station looking for his son Tanveer’s father-in-law, Afzal Khan who had come from Pakistan to attend a function and was going back. Afzal’s wife and his 18-year-old daughter Tanya were also with him on the train and their whereabouts were unknown.

Ali complained that railway authorities were not forthcoming in giving any information regarding the incident.

“Probably, we have to go to Panipat to get the exact information,” he said.

These are only two such tragic stories.

As the Samjhauta Express, its two coaches on fire and its passengers screaming for help, stopped at the railway crossing in Siwa, the villagers were in for an experience they would never forget.

Satnarayan, who was among the first to reach the spot, said he will never forget the sight of the two train coaches on fire.

“Huge flames leapt out of the windows of the coaches and smoke billowed out. There were people inside the coaches who were screaming for help,” he said.

Before the smoke had even settled down, both the Indian media as well as government authorities were pointing the finger at Pakistan, and in particular, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Ofcourse we now know that it was infact right-wing Hindu terrorists, among them a serving Indian military officer, who caused this carnage in an attempt to malign Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba is a militant organization fighting the forced Indian occupation in Kashmir. They have been known to be the most lethal, technologically advanced, highly trained and the most destructive force among all of the Kashmiri resistance groups and have been bleeding the Indian occupation forces in Kashmir for years now. In accordance with Islamic teachings, they have a policy of not attacking civilians, and have denounced countless terrorist acts targeting civilians in both India and Pakistan.

In addition to their resolve and ability, one of the reasons Lashkar-e-Taiba has been so effective in Kashmir is the popular support they enjoy among ordinary Kashmiris. Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris have taken to the streets this year demanding freedom from India, chanting such slogans as ‘India teri maut ai, lashkar aai lashkar aai’ and ‘lashkar-e-taiba se rishta kya, la ilaha il-Allah’ (Watch Video).

Blaming Lashkar-e-Taiba is not only a great diversion for the understandably angry Indian public looking at their leaders for answers, it also helps paint Lashkar-e-Taiba as mindless terrorists and Pakistan as a state sponsor of Terrorism. Pointing towards the ‘traditional enemy’ means they can’t be held accountable, and provides the perfect cover for home grown Hindu terrorists, giving them a free hand to keep slaughtering Muslims and Christians in India.

Mumbai

Within the first half an hour of the attacks in Mumbai, the Indian media had once again started pointing the finger at Pakistan. They now claim to have caught a terrorist who’s confessed to being trained by Pakistan’s ISI at camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba.

It is interesting to note that after the 2006 bombings on Mumbai’s trains, the Indians claimed to have caught ‘Pakistani lashkar members’ who had confessed links with ISI. All seven of them later withdrew their confessions in court.

India has a history of blaming everything under the sun on Pakistanis, the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba, and has threatened to attack Jama’at-ud-Dawa’s headquarters in Muridke, which the Indians claim holds training camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Jama’at-ud-Dawa

Jama’at-ud-Dawa was a established in 1985 as a charity, and are credited with building and running hundreds of hospitals and schools all over Pakistan. They have won international acclaim for their role in distaster management and providing relief to disaster victims all over the world, most notably in the earthquakes in Pakistan in 2005 and 2008.

They have provided emergency relief, aid, run medical camps and mobile operation units in some of the most impoverished rural areas of Pakistan.

Militants, they’re not. And while they may morally support all freedom movements around the world including in Kashmir (most Pakistanis do), they are a separate entity altogether to LeT which operates only in occupied Kashmir.

Empty threats?

In response to Indian allegations and threats, Jama’t-ud-Dawa yesterday took the unprecedented step of opening up their facilities to the media (BBC: Peaceful School or Terror Base?) to prove that the Indian allegations are false, yet again.

Meanwhile, Lashkar-e-Taiba has denied involvement in the Mumbai attacks and told the Indians to look at home, just as they did after the Samjhauta Express bombings – in response to Indian allegations then.

And guess what, they were right.