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Masood, barred from addressing party meet, delivers sermon
Islamabad, May 31: Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of a militant group accused of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack who was barred from addressing a party conference in Peshawar by Pakistani authorities, later addressed a gathering and hailed al-Qaeda terror network Chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar as `heroes of ,Muslim world`.
Islamabad, May 31: Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of a
militant group accused of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack
who was barred from addressing a party conference in Peshawar
by Pakistani authorities, later addressed a gathering and
hailed al-Qaeda terror network Chief Osama bin Laden and
Taliban leader Mullah Omar as "heroes of ,Muslim world".
Azhar, who has re-named his banned terror outfit
Jaish-e-Muhammad as Kuddam-ul-Islam was barred from addressing
'Deefa-e-Islam' conference organised by his party yesterday at
press club in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's volatile
North West Frontier Province, on the grounds that his party
has been banned.
He was however allowed to lay a foundation stone for a
new building and permitted to address a large Friday gathering
at a mosque in Peshawar, where he said Osama and Omar showed
"supreme courage and tenacity" against US.
"We have not lost war in Afghanistan... Rather it is a step towards launching greater war against the infidels. I warn all the enemies of Islam that we will not shun Jehad and continue to frustrate the enemy," Azhar was quoted as saying by the Pakistan daily from Peshawar, 'The Statesman'.
Pakistan government imposed curbs on Azhar as the recent Indian-Pakistan peace process picked up steam. Few weeks ago,he was banned from addressing a meeting in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after he lashed out at the peace moves in a separate rally there. Bureau Report
"We have not lost war in Afghanistan... Rather it is a step towards launching greater war against the infidels. I warn all the enemies of Islam that we will not shun Jehad and continue to frustrate the enemy," Azhar was quoted as saying by the Pakistan daily from Peshawar, 'The Statesman'.
Pakistan government imposed curbs on Azhar as the recent Indian-Pakistan peace process picked up steam. Few weeks ago,he was banned from addressing a meeting in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after he lashed out at the peace moves in a separate rally there. Bureau Report