Islamabad: Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed criticized the Indian Government on Friday for conducting what he termed were sham elections in Kashmir and said the battle of Indian subcontinent is inevitable he said hardening his posture on the Kashmir issue. The day also saw four synchronized attacks in the Kashmir valley in which 21 lives were lost.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief who addressed a party convention in Lahore on a day militants staged a string of attacks in the Valley asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was visiting Kashmir again and again.
Saeed told the gathering this was part of a larger conspiracy to silence the people of the state. The BJP wanted to win in Kashmir by foul means to give an impression to the world that Kashmir was not a disputed territory, said Saeed. We will not let that happen.
Ghazwae Hind is inevitable, Kashmir will be freed, 1971 will be avenged and Ahmedabad Gujrat victims will get justice Insha Allah, Saeed tweeted.
Earlier on Thursday thousands of people arrived in Lahore to participate in the two-day convention that began at the Minar-e-Pakistan grounds on Friday. Many of those attending are volunteers and members of the JuD recruited after the outfit carried out relief work in the country through its social welfare wing, the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF). The Nawaz Sharif government had run two special trains from Karachi and Hyderabad in view of the JuD event.
The JuD chief said he wanted to get all Pakistani political parties on one platform so they could have a common policy on Kashmir.
Hinting at playing a continued role in the valley politics ,Saeed said his organisation would continue to help their Kashmiri brethren on the other side of the border. “If India can send troops to Afghanistan to help the US, then Mujahideen have every right to go to Kashmir and help their brethren,” he told the rally.
In his hour-long speech, he also vowed to extract revenge from India for the role he said New Delhi played in Pakistans split in 1971.
The JuD chief said the US and Indian governments were trying to silence him, and praised Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for raising the Kashmir issue in the United Nations without being cowed by the pro-India lobby in Islamabad. No one can stop us in our just struggle, he said. They are conspiring against us and India wants us to abandon our nuclear programme.
Meanwhile India reacted sharply to Pakistan’s support to UN-designated terrorist Saeed and JuD calling it “nothing short of mainstreaming of terrorism.”
“This was an event which took place in national monument in Pakistan. It was an event (for which) large number of police personnel were deployed. And it was an event by an organisation which is proscribed not only by India but the US, the UK, Australia and the UN… Also it was addressed by an individual who is designated as a terrorist by the UN Securitry Council,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told the Indian media .
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