National Kashmir Committee chairman Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan believes that no further action will be taken against any jihadi organization. He said the action taken against jihadi organizations would not affect the freedom movement. He also said the government did not take these organizations as its adversaries. He said the strategy adopted by these organizations had caused problems for the government and necessitated action against some of them.The cited article was a great example of propaganda and wishful thinking. "We are all victims" threaded between "how about going back to the situation before 11 Sep 2001 when we could throw a few bombs and cry 'Jihad' and get away with it?" The fact that such faux moderates get any public standing in the Pakistani press [and The Dawn is fairly moderate] is indicative that Musharraf has a hard row to hoe in getting the jihadis in line so that any dialog with India can begin. The NKC chair actually said nothing about stopping cross border terrorism and blamed the lack of progress on BJP extremists, as if the BJP was attacking the Parliament building in New Delhi and shooting up Srinigar on a weekly basis. Until some Pakistani leader puts such nonsense in its place, the prospects for a real peace dialog are thin to none.
Posted by Tom Roberts 2/10/2002 4:59:08 PM |