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| India-Pakistan |
| Parties plan to overthrow Musharraf |
| 2002-06-10 |
| Next week, the country's largest fundamentalist party is planning to lead a rally in Azad Kashmir that some people here believe is intended to mark the beginning of a campaign to oust Gen Musharraf. The Kashmiri militants themselves say they feel betrayed by the new efforts to block their movements into India. "People are angry," Sher Khan, a senior leader of Harkat Mujahideen, told the paper. "We have reason to be angry." This week, Gen Musharraf summoned Kashmiri leaders to his office to reassure them that he was not walking away from the Kashmiri cause, a deeply-felt issue for many Pakistanis. One of the Kashmiri leaders who attended that meeting said the president appeared concerned about the possibility of a takeover by fundamentalists. "It will be difficult for him to survive," Altaf Qadri, leader of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference, which represents 23 Kashmiri groups. We knew that was gonna happen. The only way he can counter it is to come down on the jihadis with both feet, and I don't think he has the gutz to do it. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |