Lashkar-e-Taiba, alleges a Spanish newspaper monitored here, uses Spain as a logistical and fund-gathering base which is causing concern about the infiltration of extremists from such groups in the Pakistani community. El Periodico reported on February 5 that Catalonian police have signalled the presence in the region of several “highly mobile” radical Pakistani groups that are reported to be moving around Spain and other countries.
One blog quoted here carries excerpts from Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed’s address to a large gathering at the Al Qadsia Mosque in Lahore on Kashmir Solidarity Day, in which he said, “I want to tell the rulers that we have not started jihad in Kashmir with their approval. It was our own initiative for the cause of Islam and to please Allah. And we are determined to continue it till the last drop of our blood. Musharraf or any other dictator cannot stop jihad in Kashmir. If any such attempt was made, such infidels will be eliminated who will be a hurdle in the way of jihad. Remember my friends, jihad has been ordained by Allah. It is not an order of a general that can be started one day and stopped the other day. Now jihad in Kashmir will end when all the Hindus in India will be destroyed! They have massacred millions of the Muslims during partition. We will take revenge of this massacre. This revenge is obligatory since it is a form of jihad.”