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| India-Pakistan |
| Hizbul Mujahedin vows leader will return |
| 2002-07-10 |
| Jammu and Kashmirâs main militant group pledged that its Pakistan-based leader would eventually return to the Indian zone, after a local separatist leader dared him to come back. Hizbul Mujahedin said Syed Salahudin, who has led the group from Pakistani-administered Kashmir since 1994, was staying away from the Indian zone as âpart of the organisationâs strategy.â Yeah. He doesn't want to get shot. That'd be bad for the organization... âWhenever he (Salahudin) will think it proper, he will return and fight alongside other companions engaged in the struggle,â Saif-ul-Islam, Hizbulâs chief commander in Jammu and Kashmir, said. âNo power on earth would stop his return on that day,â Islam said of Salahudin. "The Duce: Calm, resolute, unstoppable..." Islam was reacting to remarks by Sajjad Lone, the son of slain separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone, who asked Salahudin to return to Kashmir and lead the campaign against elections due by mid-October. The statement came after the United Jihad Council called on separatists on the Indian side to campaign harder against the polls. "You want us to campaign harder? Why'n't you get outta yer air-conditioned office and help?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |