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With al Qaeda in Kashmir, Pakistan’s terror plot is not going as per script
[HINDUSTANTIMES] The Hizbul Mujahideen leader, Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
, and 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...
 commander, Mehmood Shah, have in the past several days come out publicly against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS), arguing that neither of them have a role in the Kashmire separatist cause. While there is irony in two terrorist leaders calling out two other terrorist groups for excessive violence, their statements seem to reflect concerns of the Pak deep state that the Kashmire insurgency is becoming merged with the larger global Islamicist terror problem.

When it came to Kashmire, Salahuddin pointedly said, "Neither there is need nor space for any international organization."

The immediate reason was the declaration, recently confirmed by Al Qaeda, that a former Hizbul fighter, Zakir Musa, has been declared head of Al Qaeda in Kashmire. Musa, by most estimates, has barely 10 men under him and Al Qaeda has no ability to support him other then lend him their brand.

There is a deeper hypocrisy in the statements of Hizbul and LeT. Hizbul regularly provides assistance to groups like 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 banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
 to fight in Kashmire even though the latter organization was founded with the direct blessings of the late the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
, founder of Al Qaeda. LeT camps in Pakistain are known to have been used by Al Qaeda gunnies for training purposes. And the LeT and Al Qaeda gunnies have worked side-by-side in attacking government forces in Afghanistan. The LeT has been more than happy to join hands with Al Qaeda when it has suited its needs.

Underneath all this one can detect the designs of the Pak military. The Hizbul and LeT are the two terrorist groups with the closest relationship with the clandestine wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
 (ISI). They have served as the Pak military’s primary instruments in keeping Kashmire on the boil.

At a time that most indicators are showing a renewal of the United States military commitment to fighting in Afghanistan and a greater emphasis on preemptive military action against ISIS and Al Qaeda, Pakistain’s generals wish to keep a distance between the US’ target list and the bully boy groups they use to keep India off balance. This is the primary motive behind the statements of Salahuddin and Shah.


Posted by: Fred 2017-07-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=493940