What to do about LET?

We have to dismantle this organization, and to start lets hand Hafiz Saeed over to India. Let him face justice there, while we take his organisation apart. This is a violent organisation that is responsible for deaths of many people in Pakistan & is real security threat in the country.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/03/us-binladen-pakistan-prayers-idUSTRE7421UT20110503

Islamist militant leads prayers for bin Laden in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD | Tue May 3, 2011 5:20am EDT
(Reuters) - The founder of one of Pakistan’s most violent Islamist militant groups has told Muslims to be heartened by the death of Osama bin Laden, as his “martyrdom” would not go in vain, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday.

The media are often barred from gatherings of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let), the militant group blamed for the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai.

But a spokesman for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said he had told followers at special prayers held for the slain al Qaeda leader that this “great person” would continue to be a source of strength and encouragement for Muslims around the world.

“Osama bin Laden was a great person who awakened the Muslim world,” Saeed’s spokesman Yahya Mujahid quoted him as saying during prayers at the headquarters of the LeT’s charity in the Punjab capital Lahore on Monday.

“Martyrdoms are not losses, but are a matter of pride for Muslims,” Saeed said. “Osama bin Laden has rendered great sacrifices for Islam and Muslims, and these will always be remembered.”

LeT, one of the largest and best-funded Islamist militant organizations in South Asia, is blamed for the November 2008 assault on Mumbai, which killed 166 people in India’s commercial hub. Its founder, Saeed, now heads an Islamic charity, a group the United Nations says is a front for the militant group.

Western security analysts believe that LeT is linked to al Qaeda, though LeT officials deny this.

Mujahid said thousands of Saeed’s followers, many of them often in tears, took part in the prayers.

Al Qaeda leader bin Laden was shot dead by U.S. special forces in an operation targeting a compound near Pakistan’s main military academy in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad early on Monday.

Saeed founded LeT in the 1990s but abandoned its leadership after India blamed it and another militant group for an attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001.

The group was nurtured by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency to fight India in Kashmir, and analysts say it is still being unofficially tolerated by Pakistan, even though it was banned in the country in 2002.

Admiral Robert Willard, the head of the United States military’s Pacific Command, last month expressed concern over the expanding reach of LeT, saying it was no longer solely focused on India, or even in South Asia.

(Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Rebecca Conway and Miral Fahmy)

Re: What to do about LET?

Hand Hafiz Saeed to India for what? Did Indians have handed over That Col or that Prohit to Pakistan??? so Far nothing has proved against Hafiz Saeed and Indian rant does not stand as a prove...

Re: What to do about LET?

Shami - the issue is that Pakistan doesn't have leaders who have resolve for the sake of goodness, all of their resolve is for their personal goals. They are waiting for some one to offer a price for the deviant LET. Seems like the US has not offered them anything and India for sure won't. So unless LET directly threatens Zardari or the Army, they are not going down. Its very very unfortunate.

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Pakistan needs to dismantle all hate-spreading organizations be it Let, LJ, SSP, JT, JM. Their leadership should be arrested and all finances/assets seized. Since some of these orgs were probably used by ISI so they may not all be prosecuted but that would be my aim i.e. to prosecute them all.

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agree with Captain1. Dismantle them, no need to handover to India, but also no need to let them operate anymore.

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From BBC:
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1509:** A spokesman for a Pakistani Islamist group has told Muslims to be heartened by the death of Osama bin Laden, as his "martyrdom" would not be in vain. Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) the militant group blamed for the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, has been holding special prayers for Bin Laden in several cities and towns since he was killed.

1513: A spokesman for Let founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said he had told followers in Lahore that the "great person" of Osama Bin Laden would continue to be a source of strength and encouragement for Muslims around the world. "Martyrdoms are not losses, but are a matter of pride for Muslims," Mr Saeed said. "Osama Bin Laden has rendered great sacrifices for Islam and Muslims, and these will always be remembered."

Re: What to do about LET?

The fact is that we have to realized that Pakistan is getting isolated, and we have no one to blame, but our dumb policies. We can no longer cover our eyes and say sun is not. The world is laughing at us & we may end up paying price that we cannot afford.

The army, ISI, and the govt need to be united and response in manner that is mature, honest and clear. To start, and going forward we need to make it clear that there is one state, once policy, and all state institutions work at the directives of the govt. There terrorist organisations are doing us no service, and sooner we divorce/destroy them better its for the country. Btw, just watch how the US media is all out blaming Pakistan, basically calling for attack on Pakistan.

Logan: Pakistan has U.S. "blood on its hands

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20059243-503543.html#ixzz1LIjX02kS

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20059243-503543.html

Pakistan’s government has argued for almost a decade that it is doing everything in its power to fight extremist groups on its soil.

CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan says that’s quite simply a lie.

Logan says the Pakistanis have proven effective at targeting and killing Islamic militants inside their own territory, launching a battery of offensives against various Taliban factions and other groups.

Watch Lara Logan on “The Early Show” in the video player below

Pakistan: We didn’t know bin Laden was here

But that success has been largely limited to groups which aim to destroy the Pakistani government. Military action devoted primarily to serving its own interest, in other words.

“This is an argument they made successfully in the last 10 years. The reason they’re able to get away with so much,” Logan said Tuesday on the Early Show – the day after Osama bin Laden was killed in an elaborate compound in a town where thousands of Pakistani soldiers are trained every year.

Special section: The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Other groups, including networks linked to the Taliban – some of which were created explicitly by the nation’s security agencies and which have broader anti-Western and anti-U.S. aspirations – are given too much freedom, says Logan.

“If you walk in Arlington Cemetery, past the fresh graves of American soldiers coming back from the field over there, Pakistan has some of the blood on its hands. They need to answer for that.”

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“Clearly they’re not doing everything they can,” said Logan. “And more importantly, they’re not going to do everything that counts.”

The raid on bin Laden’s family compound in Abbottabad left Pakistan “caught with their pants” said Logan. “They’re in hot water. They know it.”

Pakistan’s leader insists his government had no idea bin Laden was hiding right under the noses of his own military and intelligence agencies.

On Tuesday, senior U.S. and Afghan diplomats met Pakistan’s foreign secretary in Islamabad. The three men gave a news conference to show solidarity, and express hope for even greater cooperation going forward.

“As diplomatic as the U.S. has been publicly, you can bet it’s been a different story behind the scenes,” said Logan.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20059243-503543.html#ixzz1LIj6W57A

Re: What to do about LET?

You are right
Bring him to Baluchistan,
But they will not.
For an other shameful time for us.
Like this of Laden Qasab or Raymond.

Re: What to do about LET?

i dont think its feasible nor we have enough resources to take all of these organizations at the same time, we need to be realistic

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In that case Pakistan needs to do what Brits did, divide and rule. Did these outfits into different category and announce shutting down 1 category at a time.

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A good start and in fact the only good start will be to arrest those members and sections of ISI and military that actively and programmatically fund and support these terrorist outfits. Or dismantle ISI if you cannot do it.

Until this is done Pak is simply continuing the double cross

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lol an indian again on pakistani internal matters

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It is not an internal matter. Your govt has lost control of the country. Terrorists are moving in, raising funds, running your intelligence outfit, building mansions and buying protection from your military. India is not strong enough to fix it, US is not strong enough to fix it. Only you people of Pakistan can fix it. But we can opine!

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Dismantling of ISI will only fuel the fire and hide any supporters on both sides.

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yes dont worry its none of your business

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you're missing the point. When people of Pakistan don't do their job everyone else has to worry. Because it is not only Pakistanis that the terrorists attack but everywhere else in the world. Either you control your terrorists lost control of your country!

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yes it will be a big ripple but something has to be done. It is obvious that ISI is executing its own agenda and doesn't care what the rest of the military, govt and people of Pakistan want

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Haha wouldn't that be a dream come true for India? India has supported terrorists in the past but was RAW dismantled then?

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It is not as easy to dismantle these terrorist outfits as you think. A lot of them (e.g. LET under the guise of Jam'at-ud-Da'wah) also help ordinary people and draw huge support from the masses. Some of them were at the forefront of charity work during the earth quake of 2005 and floods of 2010

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cut the head of the snake, the body will follow.