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| Hafeez Saeed & his arrest: Pakistani version of Punch and Judy show |
| 2006-09-24 |
| Hafeez Mohammed Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been arrested, released, re-arrested and will undoubtedly be released again. This is not the first time that Pakistan has played out this farcical cycle in order to balance the pulls of two diametrically opposite forces. To Gen Musharraf, men like Hafeez Saeed are ‘life-line’; they cannot be put behind bars for long. LeT in whatever name it assumes at a given moment is important for Pakistan’s ‘low intensity’ war in the Kashmir valley and elsewhere in India. Lately there is an additional reason to be benevolent towards Hafeez Saeed. Like all other ‘banned’ groups, LeT had deputed one of its franchises to operate in the quake hit Pakistan-occupied Kashmir which was swarmed by foreign relief and charity organisations too. One of the British agencies thus transported to PoK was a Sikh organisation with which the LeT (or whatever it was called at that moment) worked closely. The purpose must have been to gauge the potential for revival of unrest in Punjab after the previous attempt by Pakistan had failed. Hafeez Saeed is considered to be more ‘amenable’ to the ISI than others in the motley group of jehadi leaders in Pakistan. He also has become somewhat vulnerable to the establishment pressures after a split in the LeT’s direct descendent, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa. These twists and turns in shady Pak groups do not lessen their menace or sinister designs. Their immediate aim may be to run over India, but they have all a larger ambitious goal of seeing the green crescent flying over all world capitals. Yet, they seem to command only peripheral attention in America. |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 I really dont know why Bush keeps a relationship with Perv as Perv is running the show re militant groups throughout pakistan. |
| Posted by: Gravish Spaviling5504 2006-09-24 16:24 |