Muzaffarabad, July 15: A top Pakistan-based militant leader today warned of "large-scale" suicide attacks in Jammu and Kashmir if the international community does not step in to resolve the Kashmir dispute. Hizbul Mujahedin supreme commander Syed Salahuddin called for the United States to mediate a solution to Kashmir.
"If the international community, particularly the US, does not take steps to rescue US from India's state terrorism and there is no let-up in killing of children, molestation of women, looting and arson of properties, the Hizbul Mujahedin will be compelled to shortly launch fidayeen (suicide) attacks at large scale," Salahuddin said.
"What is the alternative for the Kashmiris, when the US does not help them, the international community is silent on their systematic massacre and Pakistan is being stopped to extend any aid to them?"
Referring to a suicide attack on an army camp in Jammu on June 28 in which 12 armymen were killed, Salahuddin said "it was purely a military target."
"The Indian army is killing the Kashmiris and when we kill them, it is dubbed as terrorism. This is unfortunate and unfair," he added.
His comments on US mediation are in sharp contrast to the position taken by Maulana Abbas Ansari, the new chief of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
The APHC leader on Sunday said he was opposed to any US mediation for the resolution of the dispute. Bureau Report