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| 'Freedom fighters' fighting in Kashmir, not terrorists, says Musharraf | |
| 2015-12-10 | |
[DAWN] Former president General (retd)  Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on Tuesday said those fighting in Indian-held Kashmire (IHK) were 'mujahideen' and 'freedom fighters' and not terrorists, BBC Urdu reported..
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You are a fount of information, Spomong Bourbon8696. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-10 22:55 |
| #1 Musharraf was Pakistan General Zia's fair-haired boy when the dictator initiated the revolt against India in Kashmir. And Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani -- a school teacher and prolific author on Islamic themes and a man who was elected to the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Assembly in 1972 and 1977 -- was Musharraf's tool. Gilani was expelled from Pakistan in 1980 for instigating violence in Kashmir without military consent. In the USA Gilani founded both the Muslims of the Americas foundation and the Quranic Open University which then formed branches in the United States, Canada and Pakistan. Gilani was reported present at the seminal conclave of Islamist terrorists held in Chicago in 1990. And before returning to Kashmir in 1993 Gilani also created in the US the Jamaat al Fuqra (Community of the Impoverished), at the time the most violent of the "Muslim fundamentalist" movements in the United States. Gilani was welcomed in Pakistan because he rejected the Pak movement that called for Jammu&Kashmir independence. He argued that neither China nor India -- let alone Pakistan -- would ever permit it. Years later India actually allowed Gilani to make his home in Kashmir, where long in the tooth, he was until recently considered the Muslims most popular resistance leader. From middle to old age he remained a tool of the Pak military ISI, and a close friend to Musharraf. |
| Posted by: Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-10 10:09 |