After all, I am not self-made and do not have job in Hazrat Imran Khan foundation. I am not self made and uncompromised like Honourable Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Hon. Justice Khalil Ramday and His Holiness Highness Iftikhar Chaudhary. These pious judges have no relatives in positions of power and they rose through the ranks without EVER compromising anything and on pure merit. I do not posses this type of merit.

I need sifarish (contacts) to get a job and if my Mummy-Daddy Uncle-Aunty were in some big company, then perhaps. But I am happy.

My association with Jamaat-e-Islami and Sipah-e-Sahaba has served me well and now when Bank of Punjab bothers me to give them back Rs. 5 billion which they call loan, I tell them to bugger off and critisize the imperialist banking system that provided loans on Riba. I tell them unless they don’t give me Rs. 10 bn of Islamic Banking instruments, nothing doing hain ji! If they bother further, I request my friends from LeJ and JuD to ahem, tell the Rafzi and Qadian managers of the bank to take a hike, Varna……… If all else fails, Justice Hazrat Honorable Khosa is always there to shame the bank with poetry and shift the focus on to Bhutto Zardari Party (BZP)

I invest Rs. 2 bn in some factories and the rest Rs. 3 billion are in Islamic financial instruments in pious Marxist Gulf countries; which provide a simple man like me enough monthly profit to get by. Nothing too flashy. I am a ‘umble chap with some spare time who loves to come to the aid of anyone defending Hazrat Imran Khan, Hazrat Hafiz Saeed and Taliban. Unlike you, who hardly sends any email to this list, I know I waste great time in sending 2-3 emails per fortnight but I appreciate lectures by Dr. Haider Shah, Raza Raja and yourself on time management, sleep deprivation and selectiveness.

Also, my factories have benefited 3,000,000,000,000 people which includes Pathan chowkidars whom I have civilized by offering generous wages to these savages at Rs. 3000 per month. After all, as HIK said, there is man and then there is Pathan. Last week, I had gone hunting in interior Sindh and after killing some houbara Busterds, We were in Ghotki district and there was no one from BZP there on May 12. Everyone in BZP these days is shooting crack cocaine and listening to the “Grateful Dead” at the PM house in Islamabad – cocaine that is processed in the basement of the Gilani residence in Multan and distributed by Aitzaz Ahsan to liberal fascist outside the Supreme Court premises. This all told to me by my friends in the right places and we know that THEY never lie.

Also, never let the “liberal scum” “Uncle Toms” like Nafees (real name of this CIA agent is Ned Kelly) confuse you with Zionist tactics like standards and consistency. These Zionist tactics are meant to dull the brilliance of ghairatmands like us. Look at how they attack brilliant advocate of Pakistaniant and defender of Taliban, Ansar Abbasi ( Ansar Abbasi’s bachay ki dua, http://criticalppp.com/archives/7699

See also: “David is absolutely correct. Pakistan (ably assisted by the CIA and the Saudis at critical early points, but always one step ahead of their paymasters when it came to ideas..meaning the fashionable Western academic leftie notion of CIA creating the monster is also bullcrap…CIA helped, but the monster was ready and willing and well ahead of his teachers when it came to ideology and worldview) or rather, Pakistan’s security establishment, has been nurturing a proxy force that is absolutely incompatible with peaceful coexistence at home or abroad.”, http://www.brownpundits.com/david-ignatius-is-beginning-to-get-it/

Truly, these liberal fascists are shameless Zionist-capitalist-neocon-Rastafarian thugs!

PTI-ASWJ-DPC lovers must keep doing what they are doing. It has won the day. Whenever liberal fascists critisize the Taliban, talk of the imperialism of Neocon Capitalist pigs! If they continue, make the Taliban out as US agents. Don’t worry, most people will never ask the question that if the Taliban are US agents, why don’t ghairatmands protest against the Taliban. You see this can also be explained away as “politics”. If some of them ask this question, label them as “Uncle Toms” and capitalist-neocon-imperialist pigs. Sprinkle with as many quotes from comrade Tariq Ali and Noor Chacha (Noam Chomsky). You will be fine.

Syed Riaz Bin Al-Malik Hajjaji
Defender of Pakistan’s judiciary and their friends like Hafiz Saeed and Malik Ishaq

Hafiz Saeed and Imran Khan are Pakistan's leading philanthropists.

Dedicated to fellow Ghairatmand comrades like Ejaz Haider

Yes, there is no evidence against Hafiz Saeed!

Move over Gandhi. Martin Luther King, get a life. The real pacifist of our generation is Hazrat Hafiz Saeed. Lashkar-e-Tayba is a fictious organization and the only organization is charity group like Jamaat-ud-Dawa which does philanthropy and banking from the revenues obtained by sewing prayer caps. Kind of like Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb. Unlike Micheal Corleone, Emperor Aurangzeb managed to legitimize Moghul Empire by imposing Jaziya. Inshallah, when Caliph Imran or Amir ul Momineen to be Nawaz Sharif come to power, they will also impose Jaziya. For more on JuD’s
great efforts towards creating the intra-faith harmony refer to:

“Imran Khan’s deputy from the Tehreek-e-Insaaf is here, Jamaat-ud-Daawa is here, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq is here. The first to speak is the PTI man. He says on behalf of Imran Khan (“Imran Khan ki taraf se…”) that the PTI will not tolerate any amendment to the blasphemy laws. (This is the opposite of what King Khan told his adoring British followers in The Guardian of London just a few weeks ago.) Quickly he moves from that to the Raymond Davis incident, saying that Muslims must also consider (in addition to theological issues) the very real dangers faced by poor people in Muslim societies today. This becomes a pattern: every speaker starts with the blasphemy law but ends with the American man’s killing of three people in Lahore. (Source: Friday Times)

Previously it has been documented that Imran Khan’s PTI and its various leaders (e.g. Vice President Ijaz Chaudhry) have close links with Sipah-e-Sahaba / Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Khatam-e-Nabuwat terrorists.”

“Imran Khan’s PTI joins banned terrorist groups in pro-army rally in Lahore” http://criticalppp.com/archives/66829

This way Pakistan will become magnet for minorities who know their place in the Theo-Caliphato-Demo of Al-Bakistan. But enough rhetoric as this is most un-becoming from a Pious Punjabi Patriotic Puttar (PPPP) to engage in rhetoric.

Hafiz Saeed’s advocates and defenders are so right. Unlike the evidence against say Zardari, Gillani and drug lord Qasim Jillani, there is no evidence against Hafiz Saeed – or Malik Ishaq for that matter. Anyone saying otherwise is a Neocon Imperialist capitalist Zionist sellout! There, I have made my point now.

I think PTI trolls including many in Pakistan’s liberal, English speaking elites for showing that PTI believes in consistency of standards.

Also, I never bring Sindhi Baniya traitor like Bhutto in the same category. You see the problem is that these Bhuttos were always hated by Jamaat-e-Islami. My Sipah-e-Sahaba comrades from Lal Masjid were happy at the death of Sindhi traitor witch Benazir. From 1998 to 2007, she did Ghadari against Taliban on numerous forums. She called strategy of
Chacha Morpheous aka Hazrat General Hamid Gul, as strategy death in 1998. Imagine the gall of that woman – critisizing the Taliban. Does she not know that before 9/11, they were all Monks and Saints tending to wheat fields in Fata. Thanks Allah that she was “removed” by patriot Leghari (whose family have been original PTI loyalists) in
1996 when her restrictive, close ended and distant policy on the Taliban was resisted by true patriots. Millions of thanks to Najam Sethi who assisted Farooq Leghari and Pakistan Army ably in removing Benazir from power. Benazir’s interview with Vir Sanghvi confirmed that she was never a true and full believer of the Taliban like Hazrat Imran Khan (HIK).

Zardari lovers and Asfandary worshippers are all working to sell Pakistan to Wall Street brokers.

We need ghairatmand Pakistanis like PTI and ASWJ Jiyalas to stand up to the violent, intolerant and fascist screed of Uncle “The Nafees” Tom and Kalidas Shifosky aka Kamran Shafi.

PTI-ASWJ-JinnahInstitute lovers must keep up the good work in their subtle but brilliant defense of JuD, Taliban etc. Don’t these fools know that Hafiz Saeed and Malik Ishaq are fiances of Imran Khan who is engaging with
them. Its a group love thing that is also known as Difa-e-Pakistan – reminiscent of Woodstock in its harmlessness.

Syed Riaz Bin Al-Malik Hajjaji
Keeper of the Two Nation Theory

Whenever oppressed and under-funded Paak Fauj and its supporters like Hazrat Hafiz Saeed are under pressure, comrade Ejaz always comes to their rescue. In May last year, when ISI was really under pressure because they had failed to protect Islam’s hero, OBL, Ejaz Haider wrote them a brilliantly esoteric letter – esoteric because even today, it can be interpreted as both a gentle reproach, a mild caress if you may, as well as considerate advice. This was a much needed exercise of Noora Kushti which culminated in Hamid Mir and Ejaz Haider to be briefly depicted as “anti-establishment” – an exercise meant to trim away the fat of propaganda by “liberal scum” that used things like facts, substance, logic and proofs to argue otherwise.

Nonetheless, Ejaz has always been a hit amongst the ghairatmands. His stance on Balochistan and his his exposure of Shia Hazaras as Iranian Fifth columnists were wildly popular amongst my ghairatmand Pious Patriotic Punjabi Puttars (PPPP) and Sipah-e-Sababa buddies. Just two weeks ago,his brilliant reasoning on whether the Ghadar pathan, Dr. Afridi who contributed to the efforts of the martyrdom of Hazrat OBL, is a traitor or not provided our ghairatmands with some solace.
His conclusion

“If he (Dr. Afridi) gets nailed, so be it”.

This will bring closure to my friends and I when we go for crabbing-cum- Ziarat of Hazrat Osama bin Laden on my next trip to Karachi in May. And this is the genius of Comrade Ejaz Haider – he says so much without real committing himself – a true wakeel who never pretends to be a lawyer but argues accordingly. Shahbash comrade!

This week, he has written a brilliant article where he articulates the PPPP point of view – the sophisticated legalese which shows that Hafiz Saeed is legally free and it is only the BZP (Bhutto Zardari Party) government that has tried to confine him unsuccessfully. He makes sure that he removes any confusion that Hafiz Saeed and Mother Teresa are bhai-behan (brother-sister) so that his real-liberal friends are kept happy. He also does brilliant point scoring by exposing Amriki hegemony and imperialism for daring to threaten a pacifist humanist like Hafiz Saeed.

This article by Comrade Ejaz Haider has blown me away. Its brilliant legalistic reasoning for the liberty and life of Hazrat Hafiz Saeed has proven once and for all that Comrade Ejaz Haider is a man of integrity – a man who never forsakes his principles and has always been proven correct. After all, who can forget how the brave JuD-LeT bravely lead the peaceful, humanist, tolerant Khatam-e-Nubuwat movement against the Qadianis.

There are liberal fascists like Kalidas Shrivastrum (aka Kamran Shafi) who criticizes LeT- but this man also criticizes the Pious Patriotic Puttar Fauj so he cannot be trusted. Then there is is liberal fascist Fannie May (aka Farhat Taj) who has the audacity to counter the truth  of comrade Ejaz Haider with such Zionist tactics like FACTS, REASON, NUANCE, EMPATHY. To her, I say:

Take your Naansense to the foolish and uppity Pathan invaders who have occupied NWFP and FATA and are fighting against the indigenous Arab-Pakistani (Abu Mustafa Yazid), Uzbek Pakistani (Tahir Yashuldev) and Punjabi Puttar (Illyas Kashmiri) who have lived there for …… many, many weeks now

To liberal fascists like Kalidas Shrivastrum and Fannie May, I also say this:

The two of you can never touch even the soles of ghazis like Ejaz Haider and Najam Sethi as they are in Parwaaz in “Made-in-Pakistan” Shaheens (or helicopters if you insist on referring to them by their Judeo-Christain name). They fly in the Shaheens of Pious Patriotic Puttar army and hence they are the epitome of Ghairat.

Having dismissed these liberal fascists with my brilliant reasoning, I now compare this brilliant legalistic defense of Hafiz Saeed by Ejaz Haider with the latter’s contribution to the objective, principled, dispassionate, well-argued, substantiated and daring criticism of Tyrant Zardari; after reading this no one can dare accuse Comrade Ejaz of double standards in terms of his advocacy for Due Process:

“Let us start with the basics. You are an a——. A thief. An alleged murderer. And a scoundrel. And mind-blowingly incompetent to boot. The only reason you matter is because your equally incompetent, currently delusional, then dysfunctional, mother-in-law thought that you were such a lowly piece of shit that you would never get in the way of your late wife, also delusional, whose dowry included the most popular political party in Pakistan. Why she had such elevated expectations of a two-bit thug is beyond us. But still.

After you had done your husbandly duties, the sensible thing for BB to have done would be to have had you shot. In fact, she should just had had your sperm frozen on day one and then had you tortured into the next dimension. But BB made many mistakes, marrying you being one class-fu—–g-A example.”

Subhanallah, I rest my case….

To anyone who wants to critisize true Patriotic-Liberals like Ejaz Haider and his Jinnah Institute comrades like Nasim Zehra, Raza Rumi, Najam Sethi etc. I say this:

You will have to go through me first. Me and the endangered tribe of true liberals will rally around comrade Ejaz and provide him solace from the hurt of any cyber barbs by the “liberal fascists” and “liberal scum”
Ejaz teray Jaanisar, Beshumar, Beshumar

Syed Riaz Bin Al-Malik Hajjaji

Pakistan's Ahl-e-Hadith Muslims remain misunderstood and mistreated.

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In defense of our Salafi (Ahl-e-Hadith) brothers and sisters

Do not ignore the distinction between Deobandi jihadis and Salafi (wahhabi) jihadis in Pakistan

Salafi cannon fodder: ISI’s jihad in Kashmir through JuD/LeT

There are long held adverse stereotypes and misperceptions about the Ahl-e-Hadith (Salafi or Wahhabi) Muslims in Pakistani society.

Some of these adverse stereotypes include:

1. All Ahl-e-Hadith are a part of Jihadi-sectarian militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) aka Jamaatu-ud-Dawa (Jud);
2. They are blasphemers of the Prophet (pbuh);
3. They are blasphemers of the family of the Propeht (pbuh);
4. They support violence against other Muslim sects (e.g., Sunni Barelvis, Shias etc), and are responsible for the ongoing target killing of Shias, Barelvis, Ahmadis etc in Pakistan;
5. They are funded and supported by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and other Arab countries…. etc

While some of the above stereotypes may be applicable to only a tiny minority of the Ahl-e-Hadith Muslims, the majority of the Ahl-e-Hadith do no fall into the above described categories or stereotypes.

A dominant majority of Pakistan’s Ahl-e-Hadith Muslims are as peaceful, tolerant and moderate as are a majority of Pakistan’s Sunnis, Shias, Ahmadis, Christians and other communities.

They are neither a part of nor do they support Jihadi-sectarian militants (e.g., JuD-LeT, SSP-ASWJ, Taliban etc).

Their love and respect for the Prophet (pbuh) and his family is no less than other Muslims.

They do not support violence against other Muslims sects or non-Muslim groups.

Unlike Kharijis or Takfiris of Sipah-e-Sahaba and Taliban, they don’t issue fatwa of kufr (religious decree of apostasy) against other sects (e.g., Shia, Barelvi, Deobandi etc)

They earn their living through halal (legitimate) means in Pakistan. They don’t need any financial support from Saudi Arabia or any other country.

They condemn violence against and target killing of Shias, Sunnis, Ahmadis and other persecuted and target killed communities of Pakistan.

For example, Maulana Muhammad Ishaq of Faisalabad (Punjab) is Pakistan’s most eminent Ahl-e-Hadith scholar who promotes Sunni Shia unity and rejects all forms of violence against Muslims and non-Muslims.

Here is another example. Recently in November 2011, Ahl-e-Hadith people and scholars took out a public demonstration in Islamabad against an extremist Saudi-funded Jihadi-sectarian group Jamaat-ud-Dawa declaring them as Khariji terrorist organization which does not represent Pakistan’s Ahl-e-Hadith Muslims.

In yet another example, on 29 Feb 2012, Ahl-e-Hadith Muslims of India alleged the JuD-LeT duo and its parent body Markaz Dawa-wal-Irshad of Hafiz Saeed of being a part of a global conspiracy to bring bad name to Islam and Muslims. Here is a copy of the news report which was published in DNA, India.

LeT Taliban maligning Islam
Islamic scholars of Ahle Hadees faith here on Wednesday accused their Pakistani counterpart representing the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and its parent body Markaz Dawa-al-Irshad of being part of a global conspiracy to malign Islam. The Markazi Jamiat Ahle-e-Hadees, which is hosting the Imam of Holy shrine of Islam in Makkah, Dr Saud Bin Ibrahim Al Shoraim, here on March 2-3, said their faith even does not recognise street protests, and strongly denounces hijacking, bombing, or suicide missions. The main feature of two conferences of Markazi Jamiat Ahle-e-Hadees would be the presence of Imam-e-Kaaba Dr Alsharami. The Saudi Islamic scholar is also travelling to world famous Islamic seminary Deoband on Saturday. The organisers are expecting Shankaracharia Swami Adokshanand and some Buddhist leaders also to join the Imam of Kaaba at the Ramlila grounds on Friday. Often labeled as ‘Wahabis’ and accused of promoting radical brand of Islam, secretary general of the host organisation Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mahdi Salfi said suicide bombing and terrorism has done a great harm to Islam. “Even logically if a Palestinian bomber kills four or five Israeli Jews, the cost of retaliation is too heavy. Israelis in retaliation kills many more or arrest hundreds of Palestinians. There is no incentive. Even against oppression, there is need to continue peaceful struggle and create international awareness,” said the Maulana. “We believe Hafiz Mohamamd Sayeed, the chief of LeT, is a Khawarij (seceder or the rebel) and needs to be punished under the book,” he said. The Ahle Hadees sect often comes under attack in India for sharing ideology with the LeT or Dawa al Irshad headed by Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed. Clarifying his stance, Maulana Salfi said both Hafiz Sayeed and Taliban were part of an international conspiracy. He called these groups marauders and said their struggle was nowhere near ‘jihad’. He pointed out how America promoted these very groups when they were aligning with it to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Claiming that a majority of Ahle Hadees followers in Pakistan were also up in arms against Hafiz Sayeed for taking over their mosques and establishments, Maulana said Islam does not believe taking extreme lines.

Source: Taliban, LeT maligning Islam: Scholars, DNA, New Delhi, Published: Thursday, Mar 1, 2012

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_taliban-let-maligning-islam-scholars_1656913

Note: Some parts of this post are adapted from Aamir Mughal’s excellent blog: http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2012/03/jinnah-organized-shia-killings-in.html

Source: Pakistan Blogzine

A Shia Muslim scholar Allama Jawad Naqvi exposes the Saudi-ISI plan to revive a repackaged version of General Zia-ul-Haq Group (Religio-political fascists) in Pakistan

In this post, we present a thought provoking analysis by a Shia scholar on the re-emergence of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) with the help of Pakistan army (ISI in particular) and its Jihadi-sectarian affiliates (e.g., Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (aka Lashkar-e-Jhangvi), Jamaat-ud-Dawa (aka Lashkar-e-Taiba), Jamaat-e-Islami etc. Given that the speaker in this video (Allama Jawad Naqvi) offers an analysis based on his particular ideological and political point of view, we do not necessarily agree with all of his arguments, however, given that Shia Muslims are the most target killed faith group in Pakistan, it is our ethical duty to pay attention to their perspectives and attempt to redress their grievances.

In this lecture, Allamad Jawad Naqvi explains that the same way the imperialists assigned King AbdulAziz ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia with the political authority and Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab with the ideological or religious authority, the powers that be have planned to assign Imran Khan with the political and Sami-ul-Haq/Munawan Hasan/Ludhianvi/Hafiz Saeed with religious authority.

Zia-ul-Haq Group (Redux)

1) Ideological or religious wing: Difa-e-Pakistan Coucnil (comprising Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Jamiat-e-Ahle-Hadith, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Taliban etc)

2) Political wing: PTI of Imran Khan (along with Jamaat-e-Islami and other Salafi-Deobandi religio-political parties)

Allama Naqvi notes that General (retired) Hamid Gul (former chief of ISI) was a key architect of Shia killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan during 1990s. He along with other serving Jihadi generals and the Jihadi-sectarian organizations is currently working to convert Pakistan into a Saudi-Wahhabi Islamic State under the leadership of Imran Khan.

In order to foil the Saudi-ISI plan of installing Imran Khan and his Jihadi-Sectarian mullah affiliates, Shias as well as Sufi (Barelvi) Muslims, moderate Deobandi and Salafi Muslims, Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and other oppressed groups must show political awareness, maturity and unity.

Shia Muslims along with other oppressed groups may create the biggest hurdle in the way of the Saudi-ISI plan to enforce the Talibanic Sharia in Pakistan. The real planner for Shia killings, Barelvi killings, Ahmadi killings, Christian killings etc is an unholy network in which the ISI (General Hameed Gul etc), religious wing (Ahmad Ludhianvi etc), political wing (Imran Khan etc) and the media (Dr. Shahid Masood, Ejaz Haider etc) are united.

Imran Khan is the reincarnation and repackaging of General Zia-ul-Haq group aimed at providing political legitimacy to Jihadi-sectarian mullahs and religious groups. In this regard, he is aided by the ISI, the Saudi network (Hafiz Saeed etc) and other radical salafi-deobandi mullahs.

Political Analysis: Emergence of New Leaders and the Return of the Zia-ul-Haq Group

By: Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi, 28 Dec 2011

(Very short version: 2 minutes)

(Condensed version: 9 minutes)

(Full version: 96 minutes)

Previously we have exposed Imran Khan’s PTI Vice President Ejaz Chaudhry’s links with sectarian terrorists! and have also shown that Imran Khan sent a special note to the Jamaat-ud-Dawan / Sipah-e-Sahaba rally at Minar-e-Pakistan: http://criticalppp.com/archives/66829

Supporters of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP aka LeJ) and Jamaat Islami (JI) conspicuous due to their flags keenly listen to Imran Khan’s anti-USA speech

Imran Khan’s best friend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry happens to be the best friend of the ISI and ISI-backed Jihadi-sectarian terrorists

The people you see here today were totally opposed to the Pakistan Resolution but fully supportive of the Objectives Resolution. We are lucky that the misguided people who were present in that jalsa of 1940, are all finally dead and this great country had a chance to find its true course and destiny. Ummah has taken great strides.

Maulana Samee ul Haq is heir to the rosary and lota of Maulana Husain Ahmad Madni, who declared people like Jinnah beyond the pale. He has developed the new Pakistan Miltary Academy in Akora Khattack. As we all know, the PMA in Kakool was not fit for purpose and cadets were grossly deficient in maintaining the length of facial and body hair compliant with the standards prescribed by the Sharia and thus making the whole Ummah the laughing stock of the world.

All citizens are welcome, as long as they are not women, Ahmadis, Shias, liberal fascists, peasants, laborers and LGBs. Ts are welcome if they have the new and improved NADRA card as ordered by the Supreme Court.

This is the land of the pure and no impurity will be tolerated. All citizens including Shias have complete freedom to practise their creed as long as the submit to the will of Allah and Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdul Wahhab.

On this esteemed occasion, we want to warn the Americans, that if the cast their evil eye on Pakistan, that eye will be plucked out and preserved in a glass jar in Muridke. We are a great nation. We believe in Allah(SWT), China(PRC) and the apostle of the heavens and the ISI, the great white hope Imran Khan and the supremacy of PTI.

Now, if you sit in your chairs and hold on to them firmly, a message will be read from Imran Khan.

Imran Khan’s message

‘Dear members of the Jalsa,

‘I want to make it very clear that America is the enemy, except when I go there to collect the dollars from the faithful. I hold Hafiz Sahib in greatest respect, so that I can not pronounce his name because of the awe he inspires in me. I will continue to kiss his hem till I am in power, except when I speak to Karan Thapar when I will accept that I am scared shitless. I will therefore not send drones to Muridke or to Chauburji, till I am the Prime Mininster. At that time the evil American drones will enter the fold of Islam and Hafiz Sahib will make an exit to join Brother Ilyas Kashmiri in Jannat al Firdaus.

‘I also hold General Hameed Peabrain Gul in greatest respect. He is the greatest brain that the ISI has ever produced. With his leadership and his wisdom we will soon vaporize the planet and achieve the everlasting jannah, under which will run streams of fresh water, free from the reach of treasonous Indus Basin Treaty and where Maulana Ludhianvi will recline against silken bolsters and be proffered salubrious drinks by pubescent boys wearing martyrdom vests only.

(Leaders link their hands together and hold them high; collective prayer, where all cry, overcome with emotion)

Source: Justice Denied

Related post: Imran Khan’s PTI joins banned terrorist groups in pro-army rally in Lahore

Video: General Hamid Gul addresses affiliates of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi at the Difa-e-Pakistan Conference

Imran Khan dispatched a special message to ISI-backed rally led by two militant organizations.

Related post: Imran Khan’s PTI joins banned terrorist groups in pro-army rally in Lahore

Last month (Nov 2011), I was so hopeful after reading Imran Khan’s clear and bold stance against militant groups basd in Pakistan:

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said his party will ensure that no militant groups operate from Pakistani soil if it comes to power, but stopped short of committing himself to action against the Jamaatud Dawa, and its leader Hafiz Saeed due to the threat posed to politicians by extremists. According to a PTI (Press Trust of India) report, the head of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf party said it should be the country’s state policy to ensure that “there are no militant groups operating from within Pakistan”.

“As a policy, if the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf government comes to power, we will insist on there being no militant groups operating within Pakistan because the world has changed. The groups that were created during the Afghan Jihad, and this is now an outdated concept of having them as assets,” Mr Khan said in an interview with Karan Thapar for CNN-IBN’s “Devil’s Advocate” programme.

Mr Khan said the time had come “to not only remove all militant groups (and) disarm them” but also to work for the “de-weaponisation in Pakistan because it is causing massive problems within the country”.

Imran says he won’t allow any militant group to operate from Pakistan, Dawn, 14 Nov 2011

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/imran-says-he-wont-allow-any-militant-group-to-operate-from-pakistan.html

However, my hopes were soon dashed when I came to know that in the ISI-sponsored Defence of Pakistan rally (Lahore, 18 Dec 2011) led by a number of militant organizations including Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Ahmed Ludhianvi, Imran Khan’s PTI participated and a special message by Imran Khan was read to the conference participants.

The Defence of Pakistan Council (DPC) is an anti-US and anti-India campaign run by Messrs General Hamidf Gul, Hafiz Saeed (LeT-JuD), Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi (LeJ-SSP) and Samiul Haq (JUI-Taliban), among others. Its Lahore rally was a pro-army establishment show or religio-political and militant organisations which provided an opportunity for several political light-weights to curry favour with the radical `40-party` front put up by the DPC. Sheikh Rashid was there, eager to enlist as a true Dawa follower. Ijazul Haq (General Ziaul Haq’s son) was in attendance as was Jamaat Islami`s Liaqat Baloch.

Most significantly, Imran Khan dispatched a close associate of his to read out a message on his behalf. This was not the first time PTI had been spotted at such a meeting. In the circumstances, the message took on stronger meaning.

Cyril Almeida writes:

It was an extraordinary spectacle in Minto Park at the foot of the Minar-i-Pakistan on Sunday: jihadists, sectarian warriors, orthodox mullahs, Islamic revivalists, all banding together under the banner of the Difaa-i-Pakistan Council (Pakistan Defence Council) and vowing to ‘defend’ Pakistan against external aggression.

Headlined by Hafiz Saeed, leader of the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), widely perceived as a front for the banned Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT), Sunday’s event was a massive show of right-wing strength and has come in the wake of a heightened public profile by the JuD in recent months.

Was the PDC rally, then, meant to signify the entry of Hafiz Saeed into national politics, though perhaps not of the electoral variety?

More broadly, does the PDC event suggest that the security establishment is once again lashing together reactionary and millenarian forces in pursuit of narrow institutional interests without heed to the dangers to state and society of such a move?

The Difaa-i-Pakistan (PDC), an umbrella group of 44 right-wing entities and personalities, has been reactivated in the wake of the Mohmand killings, suggesting an external agenda.

But critics also see a thinly veiled domestic political agenda behind the creation of the PDC, an attempt to create a right-wing grouping from which an MMA-style or perhaps even an IJI-style political front will emerge ahead of the next general election.

“We’re seeing a replay of 10 years ago. After 9/11, we saw the creation of the Pak-Afghan Defence Council. From there, the politicians in the group created the MMA while the hardcore jihadis went their own way,” said Nusrat Javeed, a veteran journalist.

Beyond the immediate purpose of cultivating the PDC as a buffer against American demands, analysts believe the right-wing alliance has a deeper political purpose.

“Like you have many windows open on the computer, the establishment has many windows open too,” Arif Nizami said. “So they have Imran Khan to collect all the establishment political types and now you have the PDC to gather together all the ultra-right types.”

“The ISI has unleashed its jihadis,” said Amir Mir, an expert on Islamic militancy in the region, adding, “Before Sunday’s rally, there had already been five rallies in November alone on the Mall (Lahore).”

The link between the PDC and the security establishment, according to Mir and other analysts, was as clear as anything can be in the otherwise murky nexus between the establishment and jihadi groups.

“Samiul Haq (of JUI-S), Hafiz Saeed, Ijazul Haq, Sheikh Rashid, all these people come from the agency circles,” Mir argued. “And look at their views on foreign policy, they’re nothing more than mouthpieces of the intelligence establishment.”

“See who is involved (in the PDC) and look at their past: they’ve never gone against the ISI and some of them are quite frank about it,” Suhail Waraich said. “Their platform is anti-US, anti-India, anti-present government, who does that suit?”

“The revival of the military-mullah alliance could be to squeeze the space for Zardari and the PPP, the N-League and the other nationalist parties in the provinces,” said Imtiaz Alam.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/21/rally-in-lahore-sends-alarm-bells-ringing.html

Imran Khan’s tacit-association with the ISI and his apparent association with right-wing groups, including militant groups, indicates that he, too, is a pragmatic, Machiavellian politician. For example, his message to foreign (Indian or Western audience) is usually different from his political message to his domestic audience. Further, despite his tall claims of being a Tsunami, he is an ordinary mortal being and is extremely fearful of militant creatures, such as Ajmal Kasab and Mumtaz Qadri.

For example:

When Thapar asked him about militant groups and whether Khan would denounce them, he answered broadly in the affirmative. But Thapar is not the usually naïve and unabashedly sick-of-democracy Pakistani television anchor. He proceeded to ask Khan whether Hafiz Saeed and Jamaat-ud-Daawa would be specifically mentioned. That was uncomfortable, for specifics are not conducive to Khan and his populism. Out came the reply which speaks volumes about the man and his philosophy. To paraphrase it Khan’s reply referred to Salmaan Taseer’s death about how the killer of a governor ‘becomes a hero’. Khan went on to say that Pakistan is the most polarised country in the world and that there is no point in being a hero in this country.

Waqqas Mir, Pakistan Today, 18 Dec 2011

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/12/more-on-khan/

However, when he was specifically asked if he would check the activities of Hafiz Saeed, blamed for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and his group JuD and its front organisations like the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, he did not commit himself to acting against these elements due to perceived fears posed by extremists.

“Look, I’m living in Pakistan. Pakistan at the moment is the most polarised country in the world. A governor gets shot, his assassin becomes a hero. There’s no point in becoming a hero right now in this country where there’s no rule of law,” he said, referring to the assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer.

“Life is very cheap here, so just let me make a policy statement. Don’t just go into details. As a policy statement, it should answer your question. No militant groups operating from within Pakistan,” he said.

Imran says he won’t allow any militant group to operate from Pakistan, Dawn, 14 Nov 2011

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/14/imran-says-he-wont-allow-any-militant-group-to-operate-from-pakistan.html

A Pakistani man who trained at Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terror camps has been arrested in the US on charges of producing propaganda for the terror group. The Long War Journal has obtained a copy of the propaganda video, which is published here.

Jubair Ahmad, a Pakistani man who moved to Virginia in 2007, was charged on Sept. 1 and arrested by the FBI for providing material support to a terrorist group. He produced the tape at the behest of the son of the overall leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Jubair, who was born in Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province, joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT, when he was a teenager, according to the FBI affidavit. He admitted to the FBI that he attended three LeT camps.

The first camp attended by Jubair was Dora Suffa, “where he received instruction in religious dogma and proselytizing,” the FBI stated. Afterward, “he attended LeT’s basic training camp known as Dora A’ama, where he received additional religious indoctrination, physical conditioning, and weapons instruction.” According to Jubair, students at Dora A’ama “listen to lectures, offer your prayers, exercise, study guns, fire them.” He also said that “where I got training from they do the commando training there now.” Then, at the third camp, which is known as Dora Khasa, he attended LeT’s “commando course.” An instructor turned him away after one week as he was too young, Jubair claimed.

Jubair and his family were issued visas in October 2006 because “his father was related to a US citizen,” the FBI stated. Jubair entered the US in February 2007 with his father, mother, and two younger brothers. “His current immigration status is Lawful Permanent Resident,” according to the affidavit.

Jubair was in the US for two years before the FBI detected that he was participating in terrorist activities. The FBI began investigating him in 2009 “after receiving information that Jubair may be associated with LeT.”

The FBI said he created and uploaded a Lashkar-e-Taiba propaganda video on Sept. 25, 2010. To create the video, Jubair was in direct contact with Talha Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed.

The propaganda video included images of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Seed preaching and being arrested by Pakistani police, images of Muslims being killed by Pakistani and Middle Eastern troops, prisoners and their jailers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Pakistani weapons systems, and video clips of US armored vehicles being blown up in roadside bomb attacks in Iraq. A “prayer” given by Hafiz Saeed that repeatedly invokes jihad and praises the “mujahideen” is played in the background.

Talha gave Zubair editing instructions and guidance on where he could find images and clips of the items he wanted in the video. Talha was also careful not to have Lashkar-e-Taiba explicitly mentioned, or connected with the November 2008 terror assault in Mumbai.

“Talha asked Jubair to include pictures of Hafiz Saeed when Hafiz was being arrested and placed under house arrest,” the FBI said. “As the conversation continued Talha described types of photos to be used in the video.”

“Jubair asked if he should post the Mumbai one and added they want to show their power… Talha told Jubair not to use anything referencing Mumbai but said Jubair could reference Palestine and operating of Mujahideen in Kashmir.”

In October, Talha instructed Jubair to remove all references to Lashkar-e-Taiba. Jubair uploaded the final version of the video to YouTube on Oct. 16, 2010, the affidavit stated.

Although the YouTube account was redacted in the report, The Long War Journal has learned that the account Jubair used is AbuDujjana.

Jubair deleted the video from his YouTube account after receiving a visit from the FBI late last month.

Background on the Lashkar-e-Taiba

Over the past decade, the US has added the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its so-called charitable front groups, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Falah-i Insaniat Foundation, as global terrorist organizations. Falah-i Insaniat was established in early 2009 after the United Nations added Jamaat-ud-Dawa to its list of proscribed terror groups.

Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, and several of his top lieutenants have been designated by the US and the UN as a terrorists. They remain free men in Pakistan despite openly supporting jihad in both India and Pakistan, and regardless of LeT’s involvement in the Mumbai attack as well as other terror attacks.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba and Saeed have strong links to al Qaeda and elements within Pakistan’s military and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI.

Osama bin Laden and his mentor Abdullah Azzam encouraged Saeed to form Lashkar-e-Taiba in the late 1980s, and helped fund the establishment of the terror outfit. Lashkar-e-Taiba, like al Qaeda, practices the Wahhabi strain of Islam, and receives funding from Saudis and other wealthy individuals throughout the Middle East.

Lashkar-e-Taiba is an ally of al Qaeda; the two groups provide support for each other, and their operatives train in each other’s camps. Lashkar-e-Taiba has established training camps in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and the tribal areas, and also maintains camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the Northern Areas.

A senior US military intelligence official described the group as “al Qaeda junior,” as it has vast resources and is able to carry out complex attacks throughout its area of operations. “If by some stroke of luck al Qaeda collapsed, LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) could step in and essentially take its place,” the official told The Long War Journal in November 2008.

The relationship between al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba is complex, the official noted. “While Lashkar-e-Taiba is definitely subordinate to al Qaeda in many ways, it runs its own network and has its own command structure. The groups often train in each others’ camps, and fight side by side in Afghanistan.”

Lashkar-e-Taiba has an extensive network in Southern and Southeast Asia, where it seeks to establish a Muslim caliphate. The group essentially runs a state within a state in Pakistan; the group has established an organization that is as effective as Lebanese Hezbollah. Its sprawling Muridke complex, just northwest of Lahore in Punjab province, is a town of its own. Throughout Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Taiba runs numerous hospitals, clinics, schools, mosques, and other services. In support of its activities, LeT is active in fundraising across the Middle East and South Asia, and the group has recruited scores of Westerners to train in its camps.

Pakistan has refused to crack down on homegrown terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, despite their covert and overt support for al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other terror groups. Inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence services, which are the real powers in Pakistan, groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba are seen as ‘strategic depth’ against India, and are used as instruments of foreign policy. Pakistani Army corps commanders, who occupy some of the senior-most positions in the military, openly cavort with Saeed.

After the November 2008 terror assault in Mumbai, India, which was carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives, Pakistan claimed to have shut down Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa offices and camps, and detained followers, but the efforts were largely cosmetic. Saeed was formally placed under house arrest, but in reality he was free to do as he pleased. His house arrest was later lifted by a Pakistani court.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the primary terror groups used by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency to direct military and terror operations inside India and Indian-held Kashmir. During the 1999 Kargil War, when Pakistan invaded Indian-held Kashmir, the Lashkar-e-Taiba fought as the vanguard for Pakistani forces in the mountainous region. To this day, Lashkar-e-Taiba military and terror units continue to infiltrate into Kashmir, with the help of Pakistan’s military.

Source: The Long War Journal

Saeed was responsible for the terror attack on Mumbai on 26/11.

Deputy attorney general Naseem Kashmiri, in a written reply submitted on behalf of foreign ministry to Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore high court, said: “The government is defending the ISI before the US court being an institute of the government while the JuD or its chief are not part of the government.”

“Therefore, the government cannot provide legal assistance to him or his organisation,” the reply said.

After examining the government’s response, the judge asked Saeed’s counsel A K Dogar to present the law under which the court could direct the government to defend a private individual in a US court.

Dogar sought time to prepare his arguments and the court adjourned the matter till June 30.

The lawsuit was filed in a Brooklyn court last year by relatives of US nationals Rabbi Gabriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were among the 166 people killed in the Mumbai attacks.

The US court had issued summons to Saeed, the current and a former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency and several other persons who were named in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit accuses Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, commanders Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Azam Cheema and Sajid Majid, former ISI chief Nadeem Taj, incumbent head Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and two others of providing material support for the Mumbai attacks.

For each of nine claims, the plaintiffs have sought damages of USD 75,000.

Saeed contended that he is the head of the JuD and had no links with LeT.

He contended that the government should defend him in the lawsuit in the same manner that it is protecting the ISI chief and other officials.

Source: The Times of India

In an interview to an Indian TV channel on Saturday, Khan said that “low-level” ISI personnel may have been involved in the terrorist attack on Mumbai. Speaking against the backdrop of the disclosures made by David Coleman Headley about serving ISI officers — Major Iqbal and Major Sameer — Khan told the Indian channel, “I think there is no doubt that whosoever is this Major Iqbal is, was in touch with this man (David Headley),” he said. “I think I would certainly accept that,” he added.

This is the first-ever admission of ISI’s involvement in terrorism by a senior functionary, if retired, of Pakistan. Though Khan suggested that Major Iqbal could be acting on his own, his statement can only reinforce the growing global conviction about the state-run spy agency’s involvement in terrorist activities.

So far, Pakistan has been in denial about the existence of the two serving ISI officers, who were crucial to the terror plot against India.

The statement comes at a time when Chicago trial of 26/11 co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana and Headley’s testimony in the same court has trained the spotlight on the use of terror by ISI to promote Pakistan’s strategic objectives. This is sure to add to the embarrassment that Pakistan has been reeling under since Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding in plain sight in the garrison town of Abbotabad.

In his interview to CNN-IBN, Khan tried to backtrack soon after admitting ISI’s involvement in the Mumbai attack. “But the crucial question is that did Major Iqbal act under instruction from ISI hierarchy or is he one of these people who are operating on their own at lower levels,” he said.

Seeking to retreat, he further said he had doubts over ISI and army institutions taking part in something like Mumbai attacks as that would be “counter-productive”.

According to Headley, it was Major Iqbal who took the decision on the list of targets and also facilitated training of terrorists by Pakistan navy. Headley admitted himself being trained by Iqbal in a safehouse near the Lahore airport.

Khan was Pakistan’s foreign secretary for fours years from 1990-94. After his retirement, he was involved in Track II diplomacy to improve India-Pakistan ties. He is also a former chief of Pakistan Cricket Board.

On the possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear assets falling into hands of jihadis, Khan said he was confident something like that was not going to happen. When asked to elaborate further on the threat and that if he could completely rule out possibility of jihadi sympathizers infiltrating into Pakistani forces to acquire weapons or fissile material, Khan said, “I will not be 100% sure but 99% sure that this will not be allowed to happen.”

On the notion that Pakistan Army is not taking a hard enough position against anti-India groups, he said there is a feeling in Pakistan that this attitude has to change. “Now after bin Laden, Karachi, they must think that terrorism, not India is the major concern…This feeling is surely going to be accepted by the army,” he said.

Source: The Times of India