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| No al-Qaeda members hiding in AJK: Sardar Siab Khalid |
| 2003-01-24 |
| Speaker of the Azad [Pak] Kashmir Assembly Thursday rejected the speculation that al-Qaeda members were hiding in AJK with the connivance of the local population. "No al-Qaeda members are hiding in Azad Kashmir, and if there were any, we would ourselves act and arrest them, not the FBI," Sardar Siab Khalid said during a "meet the press programme" here. He's telling the truth, you know. Why would they have to hide? Referring to the recent "harsh" statements of US Ambassador to India, Blackwill, the AJK speaker said, "such utterances have triggered serious concern in the AJK, and the state Assembly will take notice of such statements at the floor of the house." Oh, dear! Hold me, Ethel! Blackwill on a number of occasions has blatantly termed the freedom struggle in Occupied Kashmir as "terrorism" and has fervently supported Indian stand on the Kashmir issue that has cost over 70,000 lives of Kashmiris. The speaker reiterated the people of Kashmir have been resisting Indian state-terrorism since decades and were prepared to continue their struggle for freedom from Indian yoke. Of course they are. They're never going to stop jihad, until Pak goes too far and does manage to start a war. At that point, what's left of it will become Afghanistan's eastermost and India's westernmost provinces. As they should be. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 It appears to me that India doesn't want them. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-01-24 13:53:05 |