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Boost for India as France demands decisive action against Jaish and Lashkar
[JANTAKAREPORTER] Ina significant boost to India’s stand on 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... , 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 Hizbul Mujahideen, French foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, echoed India’s sentiments advocating the ban on Pakistain based terror outfits. He also vowed to work with New Delhi to get terrorist Masood Azhar proscribed by the UN Security Council. Without naming China which has blocked a proposal at the UNSC to sanction JeM chief Azhar, Ayrault said, "The international community’s determination to combat terrorism must be the same everywhere, regardless of the threat." On the cross-LoC surgical strikes carried out by India in September last year after an attack on Uri army camp, Ayrault said a country has a "right to defend itself" in the wake of such threats. "La Belle France has very firmly condemned the terrorist attacks against India, including the recent one in Uri, and reiterated its full solidarity with India in its combat against terrorism," the French Minister, who was on a visit here, told PTI in an interview. Clearly referring to Pakistain without naming it, he emphasised that all countries should fight effectively against terrorism "originating from their territory or territories under their control". Posted by: Fred 2017-01-13 |
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