Re: Strike shuts Kashmir on India’s Republic Day
are you telling me that these groups are freedom fighters for Kashmir??? They have a lot of supporters from Kashmir and Pakistan. How can Kashmiris support these terrorists when they are killing Kashmiris and Indian soldiers.
- Harakat ul-Mujahedeen (“Islamic Freedom Fighters’ Group”) was established in the mid-1980s. Based first in Pakistan and then in Afghanistan**, it has several thousand armed supporters in Pakistan and Kashmir**. Harakat members have participated in insurgent and terrorist operations in Burma, Tajikistan, and Bosnia.
- Jaish-e-Muhammad (“Army of Muhammad”) was established in 2000 by Maulana Masood Azhar, a Pakistani cleric. Jaish, which attracted Harakat members, has several hundred armed supporters in Kashmir and Pakistan.
- Lashkar-e-Taiba (“Army of the Pure”), active since 1993, is the military wing of the well-funded Pakistani Islamist organization Markaz-ad-Dawa-wal-Irshad, which recruited volunteers to fight alongside the Taliban. India says that over the last several years, the group has split into two factions, al-Mansurin and al-Nasirin. There is wide speculation that Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the July 11, 2006 string of bombings on Mumbai’s commuter railroad, though a spokesman for the group denied any involvement.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9135/
I don’t know how you can support these groups.