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Ex-LeT chief's arrest condemned
By B. Muralidhar Reddy
ISLAMABAD, JAN. 1. The arrest of the former chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Prof. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, in Pakistan has been condemned by the Jamaat-ud- Dawa, parent organisation of the LeT. It has accused the Musharraf Government of taking such a step due to ``false Indian propaganda''.
In a statement here Mr. Yahya Mujahid, the spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said, Pakistan is an independent country in which everyone has freedom of speech and it was not appropriate to arrest or ban any person. He reiterated that ``attacking civilians and innocent people is un-Islamic'' for his organisation and that it was not involved in the attack on the Indian Parliament complex on December 13.
Before he was picked up by the police, Prof. Saeed had alleged that the concentration of the Indian Army on the Pakistan border was a `U.S.-India conspiracy'. He alleged that the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, did not want war for ``fear of being toppled''. He also said ``in the prevailing situation, jehad has become obligatory for every Pakistani youth''.
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