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Parliament attack, design of proxy war by Pak: Court
New Delhi, Dec 22: Designated POTA court which awarded death penalty to three Jaish-e-Mohammed ultra has said that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf regime`s adherence to Islamabad`s decade-old tactic of involving India into proxy war and keeping the security forces bleeding with the help of jehadis, was reflected in the Parliament attack case.
New Delhi, Dec 22: Designated POTA court which awarded death penalty to three Jaish-e-Mohammed ultra has said that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf regime`s adherence to Islamabad`s decade-old tactic of involving India into proxy war and keeping the security forces bleeding with the help of jehadis, was reflected in the Parliament attack case.
"Lt Gen (retd) Hamid Gul, who was the Director General of ISI in the late 1980`s, used to claim that keeping the Indian security forces bleeding with the help of the jehadis was equivalent to the Pakistani Army having an extra division at no cost to the exchequer."
"Gen Musharraf, Pakistan`s present military dictator and other officers of the Pakistani Military intelligence establishment share this belief," Special Judge S N Dhingra said in his judgement finding guilty JeM militants Mohd Afzal, Shaukat Hussain Guru and S A R Geelani, suspended lecturer of a Delhi University College, for the Dec 13 Parliament attack.
The court observed that the Islamic fundamentalist parties of Pakistan, which had created a number of pan-Islamic jehadi organisations with ISI`s help and CIA`s encouragement in 1980s for use against the Soviet troops had their own agenda against India.
"They (Islamic fundamentalist) wanted to use these jehadi groups for `liberating` not only Jammu and Kashmir, but also the Muslims in other parts of India. The ISI encouraged them in their jehadi adventure against India," the court added.
The Court`s finding said that since 1992, ISI motivated and trained cadres of these organisations infiltrated in increasing numbers into J & K and other parts of India and "ultimately took over the leadership of the terrorist movement in the state".
The court also referred to the war against international terrorism started by US in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, stating that the surviving cadres of these organisations fled to Pakistan and ISI relocated them in Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) and the northern areas (Gilgit and Baltistan) to use them to replenish the strength of the jehadi mercenaries in J&K and other parts of India.
Observing that the pan-Islamic Pakistan-based organisations -- Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-al- Islami (HUJI), JeM and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) -- all are members of Osama bin Laden`s International Islamic Front for jehad, the judgement said "their agenda extend to liberation of Muslims all over India and to working ultimately for the creation of an Islamic caliphat in south Asia".
Holding that Pakistan was providing financial and strategic assistance to these fundamentalist organisations and the arms and ammunition recovered from the terrorists in this (Parliament attack) case had Pakistani origin, the court observed "the blood vessels of this monster of terrorism originate from Pakistan".
"Pakistan helps these terrorists to cross border and enter into India. They are trained in camps held in Pakistan and the Pakistani army provides them money and arms for terrorist activites in India," the 296-page judgement said.
All such terrorist attacks which are made in India and in which innocent persons are killed or attempted to be killed are the acts of waging war against Indian Government and the people, the court said. Bureau Report
"Lt Gen (retd) Hamid Gul, who was the Director General of ISI in the late 1980`s, used to claim that keeping the Indian security forces bleeding with the help of the jehadis was equivalent to the Pakistani Army having an extra division at no cost to the exchequer."
"Gen Musharraf, Pakistan`s present military dictator and other officers of the Pakistani Military intelligence establishment share this belief," Special Judge S N Dhingra said in his judgement finding guilty JeM militants Mohd Afzal, Shaukat Hussain Guru and S A R Geelani, suspended lecturer of a Delhi University College, for the Dec 13 Parliament attack.
The court observed that the Islamic fundamentalist parties of Pakistan, which had created a number of pan-Islamic jehadi organisations with ISI`s help and CIA`s encouragement in 1980s for use against the Soviet troops had their own agenda against India.
"They (Islamic fundamentalist) wanted to use these jehadi groups for `liberating` not only Jammu and Kashmir, but also the Muslims in other parts of India. The ISI encouraged them in their jehadi adventure against India," the court added.
The Court`s finding said that since 1992, ISI motivated and trained cadres of these organisations infiltrated in increasing numbers into J & K and other parts of India and "ultimately took over the leadership of the terrorist movement in the state".
The court also referred to the war against international terrorism started by US in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, stating that the surviving cadres of these organisations fled to Pakistan and ISI relocated them in Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) and the northern areas (Gilgit and Baltistan) to use them to replenish the strength of the jehadi mercenaries in J&K and other parts of India.
Observing that the pan-Islamic Pakistan-based organisations -- Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-al- Islami (HUJI), JeM and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) -- all are members of Osama bin Laden`s International Islamic Front for jehad, the judgement said "their agenda extend to liberation of Muslims all over India and to working ultimately for the creation of an Islamic caliphat in south Asia".
Holding that Pakistan was providing financial and strategic assistance to these fundamentalist organisations and the arms and ammunition recovered from the terrorists in this (Parliament attack) case had Pakistani origin, the court observed "the blood vessels of this monster of terrorism originate from Pakistan".
"Pakistan helps these terrorists to cross border and enter into India. They are trained in camps held in Pakistan and the Pakistani army provides them money and arms for terrorist activites in India," the 296-page judgement said.
All such terrorist attacks which are made in India and in which innocent persons are killed or attempted to be killed are the acts of waging war against Indian Government and the people, the court said. Bureau Report