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| 4 days after Modi-Sharif meet, LeT tells cadres to intensify activities in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 14: Less than a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended an olive branch to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit has asked its cadres to intensify their activities in Kashmir.
The LeT also asked United Jihad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of Pakistan-based militant groups, to "step up attacks against Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir rather than holding rallies and conferences in Pakistan."
"(The UJC) should take part in practical jihadi activities in the battlefields of Jammu and Kashmir; there should have been attacks on Indian forces to unnerve New Delhi," LeT commander Iftikhar Rana said in an address at a ceremony organized by the UJC to commemorate the July 13, 1931, Martyrs' Day in Muzaffarabad on Tuesday.
Modi met Sharif on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Ufa, Russia, on Friday last. The meeting ended with an announcement that Modi would visit Islamabad in 2016 for the SAARC summit.
In a joint statement after the meeting that lasted more than an hour at the Congress Hall of Ufa, the Prime Ministers tasked Foreign Secretaries S. Jaishankar and Aizaz Chowdhury with announcing a five-pronged statement of progress in their discussions, including meetings between National Security Advisers Ajit Doval and Sartaj Aziz and between military and border security force chiefs of the two nations.
The joint statement also said that Modi and Sharif agreed on "discussing ways and means" to expedite the Mumbai 26/11 trial."
Ironically, four days after the joint statement was issued, the LeT commander Iftikhar Rana praised the mastermind of Mumbai attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
Rana said that four sons of Lakhvi were waiting along the LoC to cross over to Kashmir to "take part in jihad".
"One of his sons has already been martyred in Kashmir 10 years ago," he added.
Rana said, "There are some snakes in our ranks and are damaging the freedom struggle. We are being told that some people are going to take on us after Eid Ul Fitr. We are in the battlefield. We will see who does what."
Without naming anyone, Rana warned "those who were sending a wrong message across the LoC regarding the Lashkar" and asked them to "shed hypocrisy".
"If you cannot do anything in Kashmir then don't indulge in hypocrisy and do not spread hatred there while sitting here," he said.
Addressing the ceremony, UJC chairman and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin said the armed struggle would continue "till the departure of the last Indian soldier from the soil of Jammu and Kashmir".
He claimed that India was planning to change Kashmir's demography by "settling Hindu extremists and refugees from Pakistan."
Salahuddin asked Pakistan PM Sharif to "choose between supporting Kashmir and friendship with India."
Meanwhile, speaking to Early Times, a senior police official said the speeches delivered by militant commanders in Muzaffarabad were of crucial importance and cannot be ignored.
"Just when these speeches were being made, Hizb militants in Kashmir uploaded their latest video of preparedness for attacks. This is a serious issue," the official said.
He said it was for the Unified Command headed by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed to decide the future course of action, as "police alone is not enough to tackle any such eventuality." |
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