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| Hamid Gul: Indian Government should listen to Communists |
| 2008-12-04 |
| Hamid Gul, former chief of ISI and ideologue of fundamentalism, has said that New Delhi should listen to views of the Indian Communists parties here and stop playing a ‘lackey’ to the US. Appearing on a TV show, he contested that Lashkar-e-Toiba thrives on Pakistani protection. Mr Gul said this perception was “completely wrong” and blamed the India’s current engagement with the US for the spate of violence. “This is a perception that is shared by the Communist parties. India has become a lackey of the US in the lather’s attempts to create a counter-weight to China. We have been routinely hearing it from Left parties,” he said. Prakash Karat and his colleagues have been maintaining that the “sole strategy” of the US was to capture the Indian market because China will be equal to the US in terms of economy and growth by the middle of this century. “China has to be encircled as it is the most powerful socialist country capable of challenging the might of the US,” Mr Karat had said recently. Mr Husain Haqqani, now Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, had written about Lashkar in a 2005 essay. “The most significant jihadi group of Wahhabi persuasion — influenced by the doctrine of 18th century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn-Abdul Wahhab — is Lashkar-e-Toiba, which is backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services,” Haqqani wrote. According to Mr Haqqani, LeT justifies its ideology by the religious verse that says, “you are obligated to fight even though it is something you do not like.” When this was pointed out to Mr Gul, he gave a curious explanation: “The essay was written when he was a journalist, much before he became a diplomat.” |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 Nobody should have endured listening to communists. Nobody. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-12-04 16:57 |
| #5 Don't worry people....ObaMao will fix everything. |
| Posted by: Sonny Ebbeamp1305 2008-12-04 09:37 |
| #4 No. We're hooked and to out of it to worry; be happy, dude. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-04 08:22 |
| #3 Thanks Nimble Is the US/West working on supplying their own energy supplies as being dependent on our enemies makes us as vunerable as a heroin addict!!! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2008-12-04 07:55 |
| #2 Oil and Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-04 06:57 |
| #1 "The most significant jihadi group of Wahhabi persuasion -- influenced by the doctrine of 18th century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn-Abdul Wahhab -- is Lashkar-e-Toiba, which is backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services," Haqqani wrote. Can someone tell me why Saudi Arabia/Pakistan are our allies????? Ps Hamid Gul needs targeting along with Le T Boss Saeed!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2008-12-04 06:40 |