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| Kashmir intruders 'still on the move' |
| 2003-02-23 |
| Incursions by militants across the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Pakistani and Indian-controlled Kashmir continue, a retired Pakistani general was quoted as saying yesterday. "Cross-border infiltration is continuing and while the government may not be actively participating in this, it is certainly looking the other way," retired lieutenant general Nishat Ahmed was quoted as saying by the Daily Times newspaper. "We have not upheld the commitments we have made to the world." An admission? Well, by golly. Maybe the warnings are starting to pay off... Naw. Ahmed, who retired as a planning officer in the military's joint services staff headquarters a decade ago, made his remarks at a seminar on Indo-Pakistan relations in Lahore. President Pervez Musharraf promised top US diplomats in May and June to permanently end incursions into Indian-controlled territory. Then promptly forgot about the idea... In Srinagar, police said paramilitary soldiers killed four suspected militants in a 10-hour gun battle yesterday in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and two civilians died in other incidents, police said. The soldiers raided the Dalri Forests after receiving a tip that rebels were hiding thereid. The area is approximately 100km north of Srinagar. Elsewhere, the paramilitary Border Security Force arrested a suspected guerilla in the town of Baramulla, recovering arms and explosives including a dozen grenades, police said. Sure sounds like he's a snuffy, doesn't it? Police said suspected rebels shot and killed a villager, Ghulkam Hassan, southwest of Srinagar, as they suspected him of being an informer for security forces. The jihadis don't intend to ever let this horror stop, and they intend to keep enough pressure on Perv personally — to the point of having him killed — to make sure he does nothing of substance to stop it. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 hate to say it - but if Perv doesn't find and confederate with like-minded military minds who would prefer an alternative to the NWFP Sharia scheme or smoking-radioactive-hole-in-the-ground-martyr scheme, then I'm afraid this land is destined to be off-limits first to functioning brains then to functioning life |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-23 19:45:31 |