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| 25,000 hard boyz in Karachi |
| 2004-07-13 |
| Over 25,000 Jehadis, who have undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan, are operating in the troubled port city of Karachi and Punjab province targeting Shias and continuing with their anti-Indian activities unbriddled, media reports said here. ''The Jehadis are continuing to kill Shias quite freely. In some cases the Police has been found involved in the Shia-killing spree,'' reports Friday Times. It said leaders of the coalition of the Jehadi organisations -- Brigade 313 -- were either allowed to flee or escape from police dragnets. Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkatul Jihad Islami, Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alami and Lashkar -e-Jhangvi are among the coalition. The authorities have recently captured some police officials who maintained close links with the Harkatul Mujahideens and other groups, it said and added the Jehadis, facing trial in the province, were being acquitted by the courts. The Weekly said that a worrying development was that Punjab was becoming a sanctuary for the Lashkar Jhangvi terrorists. President Pervez Musharraf,who had launched a campaign against the terrorist groups, have failed to contain their activities in Punjab and Sindh Provinces as Jehadis have stepped up their activities. The President said that Al Qaeda elements were operating from the tribal Areas and were responsible not only for acts of terror inside Pakistan, but also in other friendly countries including China. The Weekly said that leaders of the top five terrorists groups were ''either in confinement or allowed to remain at large. Those in confinement under the state surveillance have been allowed to get out and disappear.'' At least two important terrorist satraps Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the LeT and Maulana Masood Azhar of JeM, whose groups were actively involved in ''low intensity conflict in Kashmir'' were virtually free and issuing ''provocative statements'', it said. Both Hafiz Saeed and Maulana Azhar had maintained links with Osama bin Laden. It said ''the militants that would kill President Musharraf are militants that have spearheaded the Kashmir jihad. They are all deobandi-Wahhabi in character and aligned with the Al-Qaeda. President Musharraf should grasp the mettle [sic] of terrorism in Pakistan and get rid of it even it means no option on the resumption of Jehadi in Kashmir. The price for Kashmir option is very high and the people of Pakistan may finally refuse to pay it with their blood.'' |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Remember that Pakistanis have been going to Jihadi training camps for over 2 decades now. At the very least there are several thousand Jihadis fighting in Indian Kashmir, who are constantly being killed or rotated out to be replaced by others. The figure is pretty credible, baring in mind that only a tiny minority of the Jihadis have actively turned against the Pakistani state and commited terrorist acts. Most just hang out at the local mosque and madrassa because their leaders tell them it is unislamic to fight against the government. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-07-19 2:03:30 AM |
| #2 The low body count is just the Muslim work ethic in practice. Can you image the havoc a division of Americans can do Karachi? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-13 12:01:29 PM |
| #1 I've been hearing some pretty ridiculous figures being bandied about: 30,000 "resistance" fighters in Iraq, now 25,000 Jehadis in Karachi. Phooey. These guesstimations have no basis in reality, unless you count anybody and everybody who isn't "happy" with the way things are today. By those standards, half the people in NYC are Jehadis. "They did not pick up my garbage this week, so I and my comrades will attack the place where garbage trucks come from with RPGs and Machine Guns! The people of Brooklyn will not be thwarted!" Nonsense. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-07-13 11:49:51 AM |