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India Captures Armed Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba Operative, Summons Pakistan High Commissioner
 [THEWIRE.IN] On the day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on Kashmire and the government agreed to a discussion in the Rajya Sabha, Indian foreign secretary S. Jaishankar has increased bilateral tension by summoning Abdul Basit, the Pakistain high commissioner over a Pak operative of 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... who was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Kashmire. The demarche issued by India stated that 21-year-old Bahadur Ali, a resident of village Jia Bagga, was arrested on July 25 "together with weapons (AK-47 rifle, live rounds, grenades, grenade launcher, etc.) and also sophisticated communication equipment and other material of Pak/international origin". "Bahadur Ali has confessed to our authorities that after training in Lashkar-e-Taiba camps, he was infiltrated into India. He was thereafter in touch with an ’operations room’ of LeT, receiving instructions to attack Indian security personnel and carry out other terrorist attacks in India," it said. India "strong[ly] protests against the continued infiltration from Pakistain of trained Lions of Islam with instructions to carry out attacks", which is "contrary to assurances given by the Pak leaders at the highest level", Jaishankar conveyed to Basit. The demarche also included a letter addressed by Bahadur Ali to the Pakistain high commissioner asking for legal aid as well as assistance to enable him to meet his family. "We are prepared to grant the Pakistain High Commission consular access to Bahadur Ali," India added. Last month on July 11, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary, Pakistain’s foreign secretary summoned the Indian envoy Gautam Bambawale to express "serious concerns over the recent killings of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani and many other civilians in Kashmire by the Indian military and paramilitary forces." India "rejected" Pakistain’s demarche. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-10 |
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