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‘Rajnath took up Hafiz’s challenge’
[The Hindu] Home Minister Rajnath Singh had decided to go to Pakistain to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meeting after 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) founder 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... issued a threat against his visit, a senior North Block official said on Wednesday. While the government was still debating about Mr. Singh’s participation in the SAARC Interior Minister’s conference on August 3-4 in Islamabad, Hafiz Saeed’s open threat proved to be the catalyst. "Hafiz Saeed dared the Home Minister to visit Pakistain. We couldn’t have taken this lightly. He decided to go since not participating in the conference would have sent a wrong message that India cowed down under Hafiz Saeed’s threats," said the North Block official. Saeed message On August 1, Hafiz Saeed posted a video message and warned the Pakistain government of dire consequences if Mr. Singh visited Islamabad. Saeed had said in the video message that Pakistain government should not host Mr. Singh as he was responsible for the killing of Kashmiris in wake of the protests that erupted in the valley after Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter on July 8. "Even when the Home Minister reached Islamabad, on way to the hotel, we could see number of protesters on the road. The Pakistain government might not have orchestrated the protests but they were too close for comfort. Imagine, a terrorist outfit protesting with impunity in India during the visit of an international leader?" asked the official. After returning from Pakistain, Mr. Singh had told the Parliament, "Keeping in mind the country's prestige, I did what I should have done. I have no complaints." Posted by: Fred 2016-09-01 |
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