...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...
(LeT), former president
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
said that he is open to forming a political alliance with the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) and its chief, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
.
"If it is meant to be, it will be," Musharraf said during an appearance on Aaj News for an interview on Sunday.
"There have been no talks yet, but if they want to be included in the alliance, by all means, I will welcome them," Musharraf said, referring to his recently announced 23-party 'grand alliance'.
International powers, including the US and India, consider JuD to be a front for LeT, the hard boy group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead.
But JuD denies any link to violence, and within Pakistain the organization enjoys a high degree of popularity for the work of its charitable arm, particularly after natural disasters.