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India-Pakistan
LeT fronts rally against US
2006-05-29
At least 600 people, many chanting “Death to America,” rallied on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan to condemn a US decision to designate two Islamic charities as terrorist groups. The protesters in Balakot, a town in the North West Frontier province, also carried signs some of which read “We do not accept the sanctions,” local police official Mohammed Javed said.

The two charities - Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq - had set up camps to give free food and medical help to victims of a massive earthquake last year that ruined Balakot, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of the capital Islamabad.

Dawat-ud-Dawa said in a statement that “thousands” of people attended the anti-US rally. But Javed said about 600 supporters of the charities and quake victims from several nearby villages turned up.
Hundreds, thousands, dozens, doesn't matter, just need to get the rubes whipped up ...
Last month the US Department of State branded Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq as terrorist organizations for being “aliases” of Lashkhar-e-Tayyaba, an outlawed Islamic militant group.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa emerged in 2001 after Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which is fighting for the independence of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
Changed their name but not their spots ...
The State Department said Jamaat-ud-Dawa set up Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq as a charity “that it utilizes to collect funds and undertake other activities.”
Posted by:Dan Darling

#2  which is fighting for the independence of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Actually they are fighting for the merger of Indian Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan itself.

Independence is not something encouraged by their ISI backers...
Posted by: john   2006-05-29 15:22  

#1  Those people have no sense of irony, do they?
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-05-29 09:32  

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