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2007-04-28 India-Pakistan

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Posted by John Frum 2007-04-28 06:42|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 on March 7, 2004, a local English daily quoted a former Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence, Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi as saying: We must not be afraid of admitting that the Jaish-e-Mohammad was involved in the deaths of thousands of innocent Kashmiris, in the bombing of the Indian parliament in New Delhi, in American journalist Daniel Pearls murder and in attempts on General Pervez Musharrafs life.

Yet the Pak army continues to fund the JeM

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-28 08:39|| 2007-04-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't Musharraf use them in his Kargil attacks?
Didn't those attacks pave the way for his coup?
So can't one assume that they are his BROWNSHIRTS?

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-28 10:01|| 2007-04-28 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually Kargil was executed by the Northern Light Infantry with a few SSG troops. Any "mujahideen" were porters.

These men, some recommended to Pak Army HQ by the Indian army for medals due to their courage in battle, were disavowed at first. The Pak army refused to take recieve their bodies. They were buried, with full muslim rites, by Indian soldiers. Later in the conflict, accepted bodies were hurriedly buried at night by the Pak army, with just a few family members present, to maintain the fiction that "mujahideen" and not Pak troops had crossed the LOC. This was done despite the fact that the dead Paks had military ID cards and pay stubs on their bodies.

One Pak father, a veteran of the British Indian Army, had to write to the Indian army chief to find out what happened to his son. His own government refused to answer his pleas.

According to Nawaz Sharif, the Indian artillery fire was so vicious that the Northern Light Infantry were practically wiped out in the barrages.

Pakistan has used the ruse of its soldiers dressed as civilian irregulars in three wars - the original Kashmir invasion (supplemented by a tribal Lashkar that spent so long raping and looting that the Indians had time to airlift a brigade of troops and secure Srinagar), - the 1965 "Operation Gibralter" - and the Kargil operation.

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-28 10:53|| 2007-04-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks John.

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-28 12:44|| 2007-04-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

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