President Pervez Musharraf said today that two top Islamic extremists released by courts in Pakistan had done nothing illegal. Musharraf, speaking to the Indian Hindi-language news channel Aaj Tak, said it was not justified to incarcerate the founders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, two of the most extreme groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. "There was nothing illegal that they had done. You can't keep a man indefinitely under arrest without trial," Musharraf said. The two movements were banned by Musharraf in January 2002, a month after an attack on the Indian parliament which New Delhi blamed on the outfits. "
Running an international terrorist organization isn't illegal in Pakistan. Good thing to keep in mind if you ever want to start one... |