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Hafiz Saeed says creation of Bangladesh will be avenged by liberating Kashmir

2017-12-17

[PAKISTANTODAY.PK] Jammat-ud-Dawah (JUD) chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... on Saturday vowed to take Dire Revenge for the creation of East Pakistain, now Bangladesh. Speaking in Lahore, Saeed assured that the roads leading to Dire Revenge are in progress in Jammu and Kashmire, and this movement would intensify in the near future as it has to go a long way. "Defeat of Pakistain in 1971 will be avenged, and this will be done by liberating Kashmire from India," he said. Saeed’s remark comes as India and Bangladesh are celebrating December 16 as ’Vijay Diwas’ and ’Victory Day’, respectively. He discarded the allegations levelled against him by India for spreading terrorism. Terming himself as an activist of independence in Jammu and Kashmire, Hafiz said that Kashmiris dying in the valley are sacrificing for Pakistain first and Kashmire later. Saeed confirmed that his organization will contest the 2018 general elections in Pakistain under the banner of the Milli Moslem League, which is yet to be registered with the Election Commission of Pakistain. The banned JuD is believed to be the front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT). "The Milli Moslem League (MML) is planning to contest next year’s general elections," said Saeed.

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The amazing anti-India syllabus of Pak madrassas

2009-02-24

"India was part of Pakistan before 1947. In the 1965 war, Pakistan conquered several areas of India and staring at a certain defeat, New Delhi [Images] requested the United Nations to arrange for a ceasefire. During the 1971 war, the Pakistan Army [Images] demonstrated great courage and valour and inflicted humiliating blows on the Indian forces on both the Eastern and Western fronts." This excerpts may puzzle you, but according to some madrasas in Pakistan, it is nothing, but history. Ten year olds in those madrassas are injected with such and more distorted 'facts', says a confidential Intelligence Bureau report. Besides the impressionable minds are further indoctrinated with a textbook called 44 ways to support Jihad, written by Anwar-al-Awalaki. The IB report, which is based on textbooks from madrasas and the interrogation of several arrested terror suspects including those involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, says that the number of such "anti-India madrasas" is on the rise. The report says that a typical text book for Class 111 starts with chapters on culture before moving on to subjects like the wars with India. With the context set, and India painted as the enemy, the textbooks swiftly move on the importance of jihad and martyrdom. The curriculum also lays a bit of emphasis on English. A chapter teaches the letters of the alphabet with examples like: B for bandook, k for knife, R for rocket, T for tank, and S for sword. Studies on these madrassas also show that these outfits glorify violence. Even the games the kids play involve shooting practice with air guns and war games. On culture and history, the textbooks, which are not available in the market and are distributed directly in the madrassas mostly run by the Jammat-ud-Dawa, teach how Muslim saints reformed Hindus and helped abolish their superstition and wrong practices. A chapter on Muhammad Ali Jinnah states that he saved Muslims from being enslaved by the Hindu Congress party, which encouraged slavery. A select group of children from these madrassas are then inducted into terror outfits like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba [Images], whose group of children is called the 'White Falcons', which begins grooming children for jihad right from when they are 10. The report says that there are around 6,000 madrasas in Pakistan, most of which, an official said, are rooted in such a culture of hate. "At least half of the madrassas in Pakistan adopt the Lashkar's curriculum and at present there are around 5,83,000 students studying in such madrassas." "Though most students are from Pakistan, there are also around 16,000 Afghan children and some 18,000 foreign students," the official said. The report says that outfits like the LeT are very choosy about the induction into such schools. "They pick and chose children from very poor families. Till, the education is complete, they are taken care of and the families are given some money each month," the officer said. The report says that some students realise that they are unfit to take up any vocation after a stint in these schools and by the time they reach Class X decide to join other legitimate madrassas which also teach mathematics, science, medicine and other subjects.

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Centre moves to ban Indian Mujaheddin

2008-09-26

The Centre has taken the first step towards banning the Indian Mujahideen - which has claimed responsibility for the serial bombings in Varanasi, Faizabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi - by asking states to share all the details about the outfit emerging during the ongoing probe. The move is a part of an exercise initiated recently to collect evidence against four of SIMI's national level fronts - Tahreek-e-Ehyaa-e-Ummat(TEU), Tehreek-Talaba-e-Arabia (TTA), Tehrik Tahaffuz-e-Sha'aire Islam (TTSI) and Wahadat-e-Islami - which have so far not been banned in the absence of "concrete evidence". "Since the IM is believed to be a hardline splinter of SIMI, it is important to get all the details about the outfit before making a complete dossier, an essential prerequisite before banning any outfit," said a senior home ministry official, adding the ongoing investigation has, so far, only thrown up sketchy details. The recent claims made by both the Delhi and Mumbai Police have pinpointed the IM's command in the hand of the Pakistan-based banned outfit LeT which through one of its commanders, Abu Al Qama, has not only been managing the new outfit but also acting as a vital link between both IM and SIMI for carrying out operations in India. "These are the preliminary findings which need to be corroborated by more concrete evidence in due course. The home ministry has been in touch with states before imposing a ban on the outfit," said the official. Currently, both LeT and SIMI are two of the 34 terrorist organizations banned under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967. Though LeT is banned in Pakistan as well, the outfit is still active there, with all its infrastructure intact, through its front, Jammat-ud-Dawa>Jammat-ud-Dawa. The security agencies here are looking for details whether SIMI too is similarly working in India through its 50 fronts. The mystery, officials believe, will be unravelled only after the home ministry's current move on seeking details of all these fronts. While four out of SIMI's 50 fronts are currently operating at the national level, the remaining 46 are active in eight different states. While four out of SIMI's 50 fronts are currently operating at the national level, the remaining 46 are active in eight different states. Security agencies suspect that all these fronts "are being used for carrying out SIMI's activities, including collection of funds, circulation of literature and regrouping of cadres". Twenty-three out of the 46 outfits are active in Kerala followed by eight in Maharashtra, seven in West Bengal, three in Bihar, two in Uttar Pradesh and one each in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Delhi. Though some of them are put under the list of banned outfits by the respective states, most of these organizations have been working without any restrictions.

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Sami bitches about Hafiz Saeed arrest...

2002-05-24

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) Maulana Samiul Haq on Wednesday while strongly condemning the re-arrest of Amir Jammat ud Dawa, Prof Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said that move would damage the Kashmir cause. Presumably that's what it's supposed to do — something about restraining the loons from pushing the two countries into nuclear war... Talking to a leader of Jamat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Walid here, Maulana Samiul Haq criticised that on one hand government was initiating the process of consultations with political leadership in the wake of possible Indian attack, but on the other hand government was demoralising the Kashmir freedom fighters by taking such steps. Dunno who Walid is. One of Hafiz' sons? He maintained that arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed had exposed the government Kashmir policy. It was unfortunate that at a time when India massed its troops on borders, Pakistan army was busy in helping the United States forces on its western borders to harass the masses under the pretext of operation against Al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives, he added. The government's policy is probably to try and avoid having large numbers of people vaporized. But that wouldn't make sense to a jihadi... Maulana Samiul Haq urged the political and religious parties of the country to raise their voice against the arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and put pressure of military government to release him. Oh, yes, for goodness' sake! Don't jug the leader of a major terrorist organization!

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