Laskhar against visa posts along LoC

By Our Special Correspondent

ISLAMABAD, JULY 12. The chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mr. Hafiz Mohamed Saeed, has declared that his organisation would not allow India to establish visa posts on the Line of Control.

The Lashkar is one of the few Pak.-based militant outfits that continues to breath fire over the coming summit meeting between India and Pakistan at Agra and has indirectly warned Gen. Musharraf against any compromise on the Kashmir issue.

Addressing a `jehad conference' organised by his outfit at Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pak.- occupied Kashmir (PoK), Mr. Saeed said, ``Gen. Pervez Musharraf must visit India as a Muslim General to ask why the mosques and the Kuran were desecrated and set on fire. More than 70 per cent of Hindus in Jammu are cooperating with Mujahideen in their freedom movement. No agenda of Kashmir division will be accepted''.

Mr. Saeed said that sacrifices of thousands of Mujahideen were meant neither to divide Kashmir nor to establish visa posts. ``Gen. Pervez Musharraf must decide beforehand whether his visit to India is meant to gain Allah's pleasure or to please America and the world powers,'' he was quoted as telling the gathering.

A news item posted on the website of the organisation quoted Mr. Saeed as saying that conspiracies were being hatched to ban jehad in the name of peace process. ``Peace process is the one for which Mujahideen are fighting against Indian occupation forces in Kashmir.''

The news item on the Lashkar website said that the Harkat-ul- Mujahideen, another jehad organisation active in Kashmir, was of the view that Kashmiris needed no Indian visas because `they ravish' the LoC whenever they like.

It quoted the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen spokesman as saying the Indian decision to relax the visa policy and its announcement to set up visa checkposts was yet another plan to misguide the international community.

The item said that jehad organisations had solemnly declared that no ban on jehad would be tolerated as a result of the Musharraf- Vajpayee talks. ``They would rather intensify their attacks and would continue the operations until the occupation army leaves Kashmir.''

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