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Pakistanis protest against improving trade with India
 [Dawn] Hundreds of Islamist activists in Pak-administered Kashmire on Friday demonstrated against the government's decision to take steps to improve trade with India.Pakistain's cabinet last month said it approved a proposal giving India the status of "most favoured nation" in a move towards normalising trade relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Members of banned Islamist groups including Jamaat-ud-Dawa, ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and 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... and hardline religious party Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Moslem groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... gathered in the main square in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistain-administered Kashmire. Protesters shouted slogans against the Pak government and were joined by supporters of the main opposition party of former prime minister  Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , an AFP news hound said. "We will never accept this decision," Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi, local chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa told the gathering. His organization is blacklisted as a terror group by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and considered a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba that Washington and New Delhi blamed for the killings of 166 people on November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai. And still he's speechifying unmolested in Pakistain. Protesters later blocked the main road passing through Muzaffarabad city centre by setting tyres on fire. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-26 |
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