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Islamabad: India should focus on its internal problems instead of accusing Pakistan of complicity in the Mumbai terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has said, while his deputy has blamed an Indian intelligence agency for the terror bombing of a Peshawar blast that killed more than two dozen people.

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Addressing a gathering of thousands of people, including hundreds of women, during Friday prayers at Lahore's Jamia Masjid, Saeed said India was indulging in politics of accusations and was blaming Pakistan to hide its internal problems, a posting Sunday on the website of the Jamaat-ul Dawah, as the LeT is now known, read.




"He said there are several ongoing separatist movements in India which were begun in reaction to the excesses of Hindu Brahmins, especially the denial of peaceful co-existence to Muslims. Yet, he said, no power in the world cares what atrocities are committed against Muslims," the posting read.

According to Saeed, US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen "were quick to exert pressure on Pakistan after the Mumbai events, yet why don't they exert pressure on India to safeguard the rights of its minorities?"

"Where was the American Secretary of State when the Babri Masjid was martyred and when thousands of innocent Muslims were slaughtered in Gujarat?" he asked.

In a separate web positing, Saeed's deputy Hafiz Abdur Rahman Makki said India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) external intelligence agency was behind the Peshawar blast.

"He blamed Indian consulates in Afghanistan as being behind the planning and execution of incidents of terrorism inside Pakistan," the posting read.

In an interview to IANS in Islamabad Saturday, Makki said that "we don't kill people", even as he accused India of using Pakistan "like a punching bag" in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks that killed 172 people.

"We don't kill people. Our mission is to spread the word of Islam and Allah's message on earth. And we are not Lashkar-e-Taiba, we are Jamaat-ul Dawah," Makki said.

India - as well as US experts - say the LeT is one of the principal suspects for the Mumbai terror strikes.

The US government's Excluded Parties List System names the LeT as one of the alternate identities of the Jamaat-ul Dawah.

Islamabad | January 15, 2007 5:15:06 PM IST

The people of Pakistan, suffering because relations with India cannot be normalised, "are not going to revolt against the state if the state cannot win Kashmir for them", an influential Pakistani newspaper said Monday.

The Daily Times criticised the Pervez Musharraf regime for insisting on discussing Kashmir and other "outstanding issues" at the cost of problems that touch the lives of the people on sides of the India-Pakistan border.

"The path to follow is to normalise the bilateral relationship unconditionally to such an extent that hostile rhetoric dies down and can no longer be exploited politically," the newspaper said in its editorial.

Terming the posturing on each issue by the two governments as "usual Kabuki", the newspaper said: "We should pursue resolution of the outstanding disputes, meanwhile allowing the populations of both countries to taste the fruits of peaceful coexistence."

Ridiculing the oft-repeated call by Musharraf for "out of the box" thinking, the editorial said: "Islamabad's 'out of the box' thinking isn't as 'out-of-the-box' as it would have us believe. Pakistanis who suffer because of the deadlock of normal relations between the two countries are no longer threatening to revolt against the state if the state cannot win Kashmir for them."

The hard-hitting editorial also criticised Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for "employing the most worn out 'Kashmir-first' platitude that the nation has heard in the past half century".

It also wondered why Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri was insisting on resolving long-pending issues like reducing military presence in Siachen "within days" even after his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee made the Indian standpoint clear.

Criticising the bureaucracy's role, the newspaper said: "The bitter truth is that the people in Pakistan have lost interest in getting India to cough up Kashmir and get down from Siachen (after the Kargil operation) while the 'smaller' problems, like not being issued visas easily and not being tortured inhumanely in Indian jails which matter to them, don't interest the bureaucracy in Islamabad."

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