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Karzai blames Lashkar-i-Taiba for Indian consulate attack
 [DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Monday accused 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... (LT) -- a Pakistain-based Kashmiri rebel group -- of being behind last week's attack by gunnies on an Indian diplomatic mission in the west of his war-torn country. On the eve of talks between India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pak counterpart 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... , Karzai blamed the LT for Friday's attack on the consulate in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , the latest in a string of assaults on Indian targets in Afghanistan. "According to the information that we have available to us -- one given to us by a Western intelligence agency -- the perpetrators were of Lashkar-e-Taiba," Karzai told India's Headlines Today television channel. "The incident is condemned by the Afghan people as it is condemned by the people of India. This was a clear, clear attack by terrorists," said Karzai who was in New Delhi to attend Modi's inauguration ceremony. Although there were no casualties among Indian staff, at least two coppers were maimed when the heavily-armed attackers stormed a house close to the consulate and opened fire on the building in a pre-dawn assault that was eventually repelled by security forces. Lashkar-e-Taiba was also blamed for the 2008 attacks by Pak gunnies in Mumbai which killed 166 people and triggered a complete breakdown in ties between New Delhi and Islamabad. Some analysts have interpreted Friday's attack as an attempt by anti-India elements in Pakistain to test the resolve of Modi, a hardline Hindu nationalist. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-27 |
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