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| India-Pakistan |
| Fight against Indian troops to continue |
| 2002-05-16 |
| United Jihad Council, a militant alliance in Kashmir vowed on Thursday to continue its armed struggle against Indian troops as New Delhi contemplated its response to a bloody attack in the state. The statement by the United Jihad Council — a conglomerate of over a dozen militant groups — came as Indian ministers and Army commanders met to devise a response to Tuesday's attack by militants on a bus and an Army camp in Jammu, which killed 35 people. With the Indos on the verge of declaring war, their response is to call for more of the same. What does that say their objective is? It looks like it has more to do with Islamabad than Srinagar. The council warned those who it said were trying to derail the "ongoing freedom struggle by paving way for the upcoming state polls for their personal gains. These people can't escape from their horrible ends." That means they're going to kill them. Slowly, if they can. Elections are due in Kashmir later this year. Leaders of the dominant rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin have already said they will boycott the polls, which separatists say will be rigged by India. All they're asking is the right to rig it themselves. The council is headed by Syed Salahudin, who is also supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahedin. Unless he's been fired. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |