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Pak plans to flood Kashmir with
suicide squads if talks fail

May 28, 2003 16:22 IST
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Pakistan plans to flood Kashmir with suicide squads mainly drawn from renamed Lashker-e-Tayiba in case the ongoing peace initiatives with India fail, a US-based Pakistani web newspaper reports.

Quoting senior Pakistani officials, South Asia Tribune, says LeT is being perferred over Jaish-e-Mohammed because the latter is linked to internationally condemned Al Qaeda and is being closely watched by Washington.

"Islamabad also sees Masood Azhar [JeM leader] as too independent and as becoming too powerful," the paper said.

Jehadi-watchers say LeT chief Hafeez Saeed would be the pointman if Kashmir burns this summer. They point out that
Saeed has close links with Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal,  the ISI and is in Islamabad's good books.

The newspaper said Lashker, which was nurtured by the ISI, was more amenable to Pakistan's control than Jaish.

 

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