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DPC says no to resumption of Nato supplies
[Dawn] Thousands of people from right-wing, religious and banned...the word bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all... organizations demonstrated in Islamabad on Tuesday, calling on Pakistain not to reopen its Afghan border to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and US supplies. Don't worry, Champ won't have us there much longer... 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... , the head of banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... seen as a front 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... terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks addressed the heavily guarded crowd, after being banned from a similar rally last month. The Defence of Pakistain Council (DPC) called the protest with parliament due to debate recommendations for resetting Pakistain's troubled relationship with the United States to pave the way for Islamabad to reopen NATO supply lines. The two land border crossings were closed on November 26 after US air strikes killed 24 Pak soldiers along the Afghan border. "American agents will once again sneak into Pakistain and start killing our innocent citizens," Saeed told the crowd. "People of Pakistain will never allow a resumption of NATO supplies and if Pak leaders, including army chief General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , think they cannot safeguard national interests, they should step down," he added. Pakistain had put Saeed under house arrest a month after the Mumbai attacks, but he was released in 2009 and in 2010 the Supreme Court upheld his release on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to detain him. The group of several thousand protestors waved party flags and chanted "death to America," "American subjugation is unacceptable," "down with the America-India-Israel nexus," and called for holy war, an AFP news hound said. The coalition has attracted large turnouts at rallies across the country that some see as a build up to contesting Pakistain's next general election, widely expected within the next year. Banners denounced the government for its alleged US bias and branded NATO troops fighting the Taliban a "murderous alliance". "Our main target is to steer Pakistain out of the so-called war on terror, which is directed against Mohammedans," said the coalition's chairman Maulana Samiul Haq, who runs an hard boy madrassa that educated several Taliban leaders. He warned the government of "serious consequences" if it again allowed NATO supplies to transit through Pakistain and described politicians as "hypocrites" who had a one-track agenda of appeasing the United States. Hundreds of riot police stood alert at the heavily guarded site of the demonstration overlooking parliament and the presidential palace. Pakistain's 10-year alliance in the US-led "war on terror" and in neighbouring Afghanistan is deeply unpopular among ordinary Paks who blame it for much of the religious violence sweeping the country. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-28 |
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