[DAWN] Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has revealed that India planned to launch air strikes on Pak soil following the 2008 Mumbai attacks in order to target the banned bad boy group 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...
(LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), India Today reported.
Talking to host Karan Thapar on India Today television, Kasuri said that a United States (US) delegation led by Senator
John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
had met him after the terror attacks expressing concern that India may carry out surgical air strikes to target LeT and JuD in Punjab's Muridke town.
Speaking to Thapar on 'To The Point' programme before the launch of his book 'Neither A Hawk, Nor A Dove' in India, Kasuri quoted McCain as saying: "We have come from India where there is a lot of anger. Supposing there is limited strike on Muridke, the headquarters of JuD."
Kasuri said the delegation which visited him in Lahore, comprised Republican Senator
Lindsey Graham... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
and US special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistain Richard Holbrooke.
The former foreign minister states that he told McCain that Pakistain Army would give a "measured" response in case of a strike inside its territory.
He asked the delegation to ask Pentagon to communicate with the Pakistain Army directly.
Kasuri, whose book titled 'Neither a Hawk nor a Dove' was launched in Pakistain last month and arrangements are underway for its launch in India on Oct 7, also said that Pakistain Army and Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military
intelligenceagency 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) were supportive of a treaty of peace, friendship and security between India and Pakistain.
"We didn't want borders to divide territories. We looked at the interest of Kashmiris, Kashmiris wanted demilitarisation," Kasuri said during the interview.